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non-essential adjective

• not absolutely necessary (tending to be less forceful in meaning than inessential ).
• "during the strike non-essential hospital services were halted"
Similar: unnecessary, inessential, unessential, needless, unneeded, not required, superfluous, uncalled for, redundant, dispensable, expendable, peripheral, unimportant, incidental, optional, extraneous, cosmetic, de trop, supererogatory,
Opposite: essential, indispensable,

non-essential noun

• a non-essential thing.
• "we have little or no time to spare for non-essentials"


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