accessory, adventitious, beside the point, dinky, gratuitous, inappropriate, irrelevant, not at issue, pleonastic, superaddition, technical
Definitionadj. not basic or fundamental
Last update: June 13, 2015
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The term, with its adjective " formal " and the derived nouns " formality " and " formalism," is hence contemptuously used for that which is superficial, unessential, hypocritical: chap. xxiii. [Please select]
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For, in this case, it is quite foreign and unessential to the nature of things, and cannot be cognized from the general laws of nature. [Please select]
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He likes to be consulted, and I pamper him as much as possible in all unessential details. [Please select]
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The severity of her self-denial was directed entirely against the trivial and the unessential. [Please select]
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They bury their testimony in unessential details, I tell you, those two children were worth all the rest put together. [Please select]
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I have serious work to do in the service of humankind, and I can do it only by rigid concentration and ruthless elimination of the unessential. [Please select]
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"I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself." [Please select]
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