unessential

a. 非本质上的, 非重要的, 非必要的 n. 非本质的东西, 不重要的东西

词形变化

more unessential 比较级 most unessential 最高级

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Not essential.

    1676, Joseph Glanvill, Seasonable Reflections and Discourses, London: R.W. [and] H. Mortlock, p. 92, [I] have a question more to ask you on occasion of what you have told me; and that is, Whether you are to leave every Minister and Church, as soon as any thing is said that is really erroneous, in the lesser and unessential matters?

    1716, Joseph Addison, The Free-Holder, No. 39, 4 May, 1716, London: D. Midwinter and J. Tonson, p. 225, [He was] moved rather with Pity than Indignation towards the Persons of those, who differed from him in the unessential Parts of Christianity.

  2. 2.

    Void of essence, or real being.

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 1

inessential

近义相关 5

accidental incidental accessorial adscititious nonessential

参见 7

unnecessary secondary unimportant expendable extrinsic dispensable unneeded

词源

From un- + essential.

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