Thesaurus / inessential
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Critics claimed pharmaceutical companies engaged in manipulative marketing, pushed “inessential” medications and charged astronomically high drug prices, especially in the global South.
ACTIVISM IS THE KEY TO GETTING VACCINES TO THE WORLDPAUL ADLERAPRIL 23, 2021WASHINGTON POSTIt is inessential here to recount the details of these movements.
FOUR YEARS IN REBEL CAPITALST. C. DELEONThe critics of the preceding generations wasted their energies upon inessential details.
THE ENGLISH STAGEAUGUSTIN FILONTo remove externals from us, to rid our minds of the illusive and the inessential, is simply to clear us for action.
THE HIVEWILL LEVINGTON COMFORTWe may ignore such inessential accretions, and confine ourselves to the beliefs which all mystics share.
MYSTICISM AND LOGIC AND OTHER ESSAYSBERTRAND RUSSELLThe secret of my strength is my ability to reject every element that is harmful or inessential to the completion of my self.
THE HOUSE OF THE VAMPIREGEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECKThere is no superficial criticism, neither does he concern himself with the inessential details of the theories.
RUDOLPH EUCKENABEL J. JONESIt was not for Louie to spoil the sport by pointing out the inessential omission.
THE STORY OF LOUIEOLIVER ONIONSIn everything he sought for the essential form, the form that contains all the other inessential forms.
PAUL GAUGUIN, HIS LIFE AND ARTJOHN GOULD FLETCHERInessential, in-es-sen′shal, adj. not essential or necessary: immaterial.
CHAMBERS'S TWENTIETH CENTURY DICTIONARY (PART 2 OF 4: E-M)VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO INESSENTIAL
- base
- casual
- cheap
- contemptible
- frivolous
- inconsequent
- inessential
- inferior
- irrelevant
- junior
- lesser
- light
- little
- lower
- measly
- minor
- narrow-minded
- negligible
- nickel-and-dime
- niggling
- nugatory
- of no account
- paltry
- peanut
- penny-ante
- pettifogging
- picayune
- piddling
- scratch
- secondary
- shabby
- shallow
- shoestring
- slight
- small
- small-minded
- subordinate
- trifling
- two-bit
- unimportant
- base
- casual
- cheap
- contemptible
- frivolous
- inconsequent
- inessential
- inferior
- irrelevant
- junior
- lesser
- light
- little
- lower
- measly
- minor
- narrow-minded
- negligible
- nickel-and-dime
- niggling
- nugatory
- of no account
- paltry
- peanut
- penny-ante
- pettifogging
- picayune
- piddling
- scratch
- secondary
- shabby
- shallow
- shoestring
- slight
- small
- small-minded
- subordinate
- trifling
- two-bit
- unimportant
- base
- casual
- cheap
- contemptible
- frivolous
- inconsequent
- inconsiderable
- inessential
- inferior
- irrelevant
- junior
- lesser
- light
- little
- lower
- measly
- minor
- narrow-minded
- negligible
- nickel-and-dime
- niggling
- paltry
- peanut
- penny-ante
- pettifogging
- picayune
- piddling
- scratch
- secondary
- shabby
- shallow
- shoestring
- slight
- small
- small-minded
- subordinate
- trifling
- two-bit
- unimportant
- abounding
- de trop
- dispensable
- excess
- excessive
- exorbitant
- expendable
- extra
- extravagant
- extreme
- gratuitous
- in excess
- inessential
- inordinate
- lavish
- leftover
- needless
- nonessential
- overflowing
- overmuch
- pleonastic
- profuse
- redundant
- remaining
- residuary
- spare
- superabundant
- superfluent
- supernumerary
- surplus
- unasked
- uncalled-for
- unneeded
- unrequired
- unwanted
- useless
- abounding
- de trop
- dispensable
- excess
- excessive
- exorbitant
- expendable
- extravagant
- extreme
- gratuitous
- in excess
- inessential
- inordinate
- lavish
- leftover
- needless
- nonessential
- overflowing
- overmuch
- pleonastic
- profuse
- redundant
- remaining
- residuary
- spare
- superabundant
- supererogatory
- superfluent
- supernumerary
- surplus
- unasked
- uncalled-for
- unneeded
- unrequired
- unwanted
- useless
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.