Crossword clues for inessential
inessential
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inessential \In`es*sen"tial\, a. [Pref. in- not + essential: cf. F. inessentiel.]
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Having no essence or being.
--H. Brooke.The womb of inessential Naught.
--Shelley. Not essential; not required to achieve a given purpose; unessential; unnecessary.
Wiktionary
a. 1 not essential 2 lacking essence or being n. (context often in plural English) Something that is not essential
WordNet
adj. not basic or fundamental [syn: unessential] [ant: essential]
not absolutely necessary
n. anything that is not essential; "they discarded all their inessentials" [syn: nonessential] [ant: necessity]
Usage examples of "inessential".
All other modern metaphysical positions, particularly those transcendental positions of which Descartes and Hobbes are the first major representatives, are inessential and mystificatory with respect to this project of liberation.
The huge arcade, housing a collection of shops on two levels beneath a great, glass-panelled roof, was one of the most popular Exalted haunts of Sherreen, where ladies of quality congregated to inspect and purchase exquisite inessentials, to gossip while sipping cordials in the little chocolate-houses, to parade their newest fashions, to see and be seen.
Virtual Reality, you might say, is the actual mode of being of the inessential, the epiphenomenal, and the non-conceptual: of all that is unpredictable, unexpected, transitory, contingent, or exceptional.
I've a feeling that Evans doesn't really matter at all - that although he's been the starting point as it were, yet in himself he's probably quite inessential.
The word resonates with integrity and a paring away of the inessential.