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To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.
John Drinkwater

Meaning of "inessential" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF INESSENTIAL

inessential  [ˌɪnɪˈsɛnʃəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INESSENTIAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Inessential can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES INESSENTIAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of inessential in the English dictionary

The definition of inessential in the dictionary is not necessary. Other definition of inessential is anything that is not essential.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INESSENTIAL


beneficential
bɪˌnɛfɪˈsɛnʃəl
coessential
ˌkəʊɪˈsɛnʃəl
confidential
ˌkɒnfɪˈdɛnʃəl
consequential
ˌkɒnsɪˈkwɛnʃəl
differential
ˌdɪfəˈrɛnʃəl
essential
ɪˈsɛnʃəl
excrescential
ˌɛkskrɪˈsɛnʃəl
existential
ˌɛɡzɪˈstɛnʃəl
experiential
ɪkˌspɪərɪˈɛnʃəl
exponential
ˌɛkspəʊˈnɛnʃəl
influential
ˌɪnflʊˈɛnʃəl
nonessential
ˌnɒnɪˈsɛnʃəl
potential
pəˈtɛnʃəl
preferential
ˌprɛfəˈrɛnʃəl
prudential
pruːˈdɛnʃəl
quintessential
ˌkwɪntɪˈsɛnʃəl
residential
ˌrɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl
sequential
sɪˈkwɛnʃəl
superessential
ˌsuːpərɪˈsɛnʃəl
unessential
ˌʌnɪˈsɛnʃəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INESSENTIAL

inertial reference frame
inertial system
inertially
inertly
inertness
inerudite
inescapable
inescapably
inesculent
inescutcheon
inessentiality
inessive
inestimability
inestimable
inestimableness
inestimably
inevitability
inevitable
inevitableness
inevitably

WORDS THAT END LIKE INESSENTIAL

action potential
chemical potential
circumferential
circumstantial
equipotential
growth potential
inconsequential
inferential
initial
jurisprudential
penitential
precedential
presidential
referential
reverential
self-referential
substantial
tangential
torrential
unsubstantial
vice-presidential

Synonyms and antonyms of inessential in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «INESSENTIAL»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «inessential» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of inessential

Translation of «inessential» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INESSENTIAL

Find out the translation of inessential to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of inessential from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «inessential» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

无关紧要
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

inesencial
570 millions of speakers

English

inessential
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

नगण्य
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

غير جوهري
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

несущественно
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

não essencial
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অদরকারী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

non essentiel
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak penting
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

unwesentlich
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

不必要な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

중요하지 않은
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Inessential
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không trọng yếu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

inessential
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अनावश्यक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

gereksiz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

non essenziale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nieistotne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

неістотно
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

neesențial
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

επουσιώδης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

essensieel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

oväsentlig
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

inessential
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of inessential

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INESSENTIAL»

The term «inessential» is regularly used and occupies the 88.636 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INESSENTIAL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about inessential

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3 QUOTES WITH «INESSENTIAL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word inessential.
1
John Drinkwater
To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.
2
Helmut Jahn
Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.
3
Peter Zumthor
In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INESSENTIAL»

Discover the use of inessential in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to inessential and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Inessential woman: problems of exclusion in feminist thought
" -The Women's Review of Books "An energetically thoughtprovoking contribution to current developments in feminist theory." -The New York Times Book Review
Elizabeth V. Spelman, 1988
2
All Facts Considered: The Essential Library of Inessential ...
My knowledge-double is Kee Malesky, who makes me and everybody else at NPR sound brighter than we are.?With this book, a little memorization, and some practice on your knowing, slightly world-weary tone, you too will seem smarter.
Kee Malesky, 2010
3
The Inessential Indexical: On the Philosophical ...
On the Philosophical Insignificance of Perspective and the First Person Herman Cappelen, Josh Dever. The Inessential Indexical On the Philosophical Insignificance of Perspective and the First Person Herman Cappelen and Josh Dever 1 1 ...
Herman Cappelen, Josh Dever, 2013
4
Stochastic Processes and Their Applications
A state / is called inessential if it is not essential. In this case, C(») is called an inessential class. If i is inessential, then there exists a state / for which / =>j but not / => '. It is easily verified that essential and inessential are indeed class properties .
Frank Beichelt, L. Paul Fatti, 2001
5
A Theological Miscellany: 160 Pages of Odd, Merry, ...
The best little book of trivia and oddities you'll ever find. . . . And if not the best, then certainly in the top ten.
McTavish McTavish, 2007
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Fixed Point Theory and Its Applications: Proceedings of a ...
A map F in Kdu(U, K) is inessential if there is a fixed point free, compact map G : U — ▻ K such that the restrictions of F and G to 3J7 agree. The map F is essential if it is not inessential. 2.3. THEOREM. Let p be an arbitrary point in U and F e ...
Robert F. Brown, 1988
7
The Inessential Ellis
Collection of 33 autobiographical essays by the Australian film director, critic, journalist and writer. Includes 'November the 11th, 1975: An Eyewitness Account', 'England, My England', and 'Goodbye Chifley: The Hawke Government 1983-88'.
Bob Ellis, 1992
8
Developments in Language Theory: 14th International ...
Otherwise, q is called inessential. Note that all states of the transducers in Example[3]are inessential. A proper transducer postpones outputs at inessential states. The trim transducer T is called proper if every inessential state does not produce ...
Yuan Gao, Hanlin Lu, Shinnosuke Seki, 2010
9
Le Système Des Objets
Furthermore, inasmuch as an object's formal and technical connotations are added to a functional incoherence, it is the whole system of needs, socialized or unconscious, cultural or practical - in short, a whole inessential system, direcdy ...
Jean Baudrillard, 2005
10
Syllabus of a Proposed System of Logic
Essential and inessential are contrary relations ; as are dependent and independent, repugnant and irrepugnant, alternative and inalternative. Compare § 181. 196. The essential is both irrepugnant and inalternative: as also is the dependent.
Augustus De Morgan, 1860

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INESSENTIAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term inessential is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Concerns over Bottled Water and NAFTA Swirl during British …
When water supplies tighten, scrutiny of all uses, especially those deemed inessential, intensifies. It is happening in California, and it is ... «Circle of Blue WaterNews, Jul 15»
2
Mayo on the side? The Canadian Patent Office issues new …
In the absence of a Mayo-like test for subject matter eligibility in Canada, a finding that data acquisition is somehow “inessential” to a diagnostic ... «Lexology, Jul 15»
3
Clueless 20th Anniversary: Life Lessons Learned from Alicia …
RELATED: Brittany Murphy: Could She Have Been Saved? 6. Parking is inessential, at least if you live in Cher Horowitz's bubble of a world. «People Magazine, Jul 15»
4
Irrational Man Joaquin Phoenix - Los Angeles Times
... purposefully inessential comedy such as last year's "Magic in the Moonlight" or something of a more piercing nature like the previous year's ... «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
5
Paul Krugman Takes Another Potshot at Bitcoin
Krugman goes on rubbishing Bitcoin by indicating it as an inessential payment solution, saying that the world already has platforms like credit ... «newsBTC, Jul 15»
6
Troubled history, script lags and all, Ant-Man escapes its wee Marvel …
The 3D conversion, as usual, is inessential — except during the three major set pieces of the film, where it definitely kicks out the jams. «Nashville Scene, Jul 15»
7
God Of War III Remastered review – war never changes | Metro News
Even upgrading to 1080p resolution and 60 frames per second is a welcome but inessential improvement, especially as the unaltered ... «Metro, Jul 15»
8
theartsdesk on Vinyl: Volume 7 - Northern Soul, The Fall and more …
Inessential but boasting ambient pop moments. Gary Numan Premier Hits (Beggars Banquet): What's not to like about a gatefold re-release of ... «The Arts Desk, Jul 15»
9
The Jim Gaffigan Show and Impastor Review: Rebrand Land for TV …
The Jim Gaffigan Show is a solid if inessential remix of a couple familiar genres, which means it's not necessarily a show positioned to kickstart ... «TV.com, Jul 15»
10
Holland airport project $800K over budget
... the low bid for the building, is willing to work with the airport authority on “change orders” to remove inessential components from the design. «Grand Haven Tribune, Jul 15»

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