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Meanings of inessential in English

Spanish
innecesario

Not basic or fundamental.

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innecesario
Usage of inessential in English
1
Just how inessential the result is, though, is frankly mind-boggling.
BBC
2
There were reasons for his being inessential to their lives.
Tough customer: a novel
3
How did it happen, that something no longer mattered, that it had been judged inessential?
All That Is
4
Well it's a very, I think, zen notion, the idea of letting the inessential go.
The new yorker
5
Then he stopped worrying about anything inessential, for the officer started giving out the booklets.
American empire: blood and iron
6
For pragmatism this kind of coalescence is inessential.
The Meaning of Truth
7
She has a gift for ignoring the inessential.
The Irish Times
8
All of it had seemed inessential, even amusing.
All That Is
9
And yet only the most unforgiving puritan would condemn you for splashing out on these inessential fripperies.
The Guardian
10
There is no superficial criticism, neither does he concern himself with the inessential details of the theories.
Rudolph Eucken : a philosophy of life
11
Our critics nevertheless call the workings inessential.
The Meaning of Truth
12
There is no time for anything inessential.
BBC
13
It's fun but, unless you're a die-hard fan looking for something to smile about, it's mostly inessential.
The Irish Times
14
Thus, the N-terminal tail was inessential for activity, whereas removal of the first transmembrane domain inhibited yeast complementation.
Pubmed
15
He could hardly use the starship's crew; there were only fifteen of them left now, and few were inessential.
The Neutronium Alchemist
16
Let's take away the inessential things, show only the essentials and do that as cleanly as possible, Ferguson said.
Reuters
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Inessential through the time