unessential

== English == === Etymology === From un- +‎ essential. === Adjective === unessential (comparative more unessential, superlative most unessential) Not essential. Synonyms: inessential, unimportant Antonym: essential 1676, Joseph Glanvill, Seasonable Reflections and Discourses, London: R.W. [and] H. Mortlock, p. 92,[1] [I] have a question more to ask you on occasion of what you have told me; and that is, Whether you are to leave every Minister and Church, as soon as any thing is said that is really erroneous, in the lesser and unessential matters? 1716, Joseph Addison, The Free-Holder, No. 39, 4 May, 1716, London: D. Midwinter and J. Tonson, p. 225,[2] [He was] moved rather with Pity than Indignation towards the Persons of those, who differed from him in the unessential Parts of Christianity. Void of essence, or real being. Synonym: unsubstantial ==== Derived terms ==== unessentiality ==== See also ==== unessentials