unessential (adj.)
- accessory
- accidental
- additional
- adjunct
- adrift
- adscititious
- adventitious
- aleatory
- appurtenant
- auxiliary
- casual
- circumstantial
- collateral
- conditional
- contingent
- dinky
- dispensable
- excess
- expendable
- extra
- extraneous
- extrinsic
- fortuitous
- gratuitous
- immaterial
- impertinent
- inadmissible
- inapplicable
- inapposite
- inappreciable
- inappropriate
- incidental
- inconsequent
- inconsequential
- inconsiderable
- inessential
- inferior
- insignificant
- irrelevant
- little
- minor
- minute
- needless
- negligible
- nonessential
- occasional
- other
- out-of-the-way
- parenthetical
- pleonastic
- prolix
- provisional
- redundant
- secondary
- small
- spare
- subsidiary
- supererogatory
- superfluous
- supplemental
- supplementary
- tautologic
- technical
- uncalled-for
- unimpressive
- unnecessary
- unneeded
- verbose
In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.
