nonessential
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
anything that is not essential
they discarded all their inessentials
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- essential antonym
- nonessential derivation
Sense 2 adjective
not of prime or central importance
nonessential to the integral meanings of poetry
Related & opposite
- inessential derivation
- inessential similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | essential |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | nonessential |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | thing |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | adjunct |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | inessential |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | inessential |