Usually means: Not necessary; lacking vital importance.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word unessential:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. unessential: Merriam-Webster
  2. unessential: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. unessential: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. unessential: Collins English Dictionary
  5. unessential: Vocabulary.com
  6. unessential: Wordnik
  7. unessential: Wiktionary
  8. unessential: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. unessential: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. unessential: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. unessential: Dictionary.com
  12. Unessential: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. unessential: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. unessential: Rhymezone
  15. Unessential: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. unessential: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. unessential: FreeDictionary.org
  18. unessential: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. unessential: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unessential: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Not essential.
▸ adjective:  Void of essence, or real being.

Similar:
nonessential, inessential, incidental, complemental, complementary, completing, nonnecessary, unneeded, subessential, unnecessary, more...

Opposite:
essential, necessary, critical, vital, indispensable

Types:
essential, indispensable, indispensability, indispensableness, indispensably, more...

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Similar:
nonessential, inessential, incidental, complemental, complementary, completing, nonnecessary, unneeded, subessential, unnecessary, more...

Opposite:
essential, necessary, critical, vital, indispensable

Types:
essential, indispensable, indispensability, indispensableness, indispensably, more...



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