inessential

1. 1.

   anything that is not essential

   “they discarded all their inessentials”

   Synonymsnonessential

   Antonymsessential

   Broaderthing

   Narroweradjunct

Other forms of inessential

plural

inessentials·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about inessential

What does inessential mean?

inessential means "not basic or fundamental". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in inessential?

inessential has 5 syllables: i-nes-sen-ti-al. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for inessential?

Close synonyms include unessential, nonessential. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of inessential?

The recorded antonyms are essential, essential.

Is inessential a common word?

inessential is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.