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Nonessential

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Noun

1. inessential, nonessential

anything that is not essential

Example Sentences:
'they discarded all their inessentials'

Adjective

2. incidental, nonessential

not of prime or central importance

Example Sentences:
'nonessential to the integral meanings of poetry'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Nonessential

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adjective
1. 
not essential; not necessary
2. biochemistry
(of an amino acid in a particular organism) able to be synthesized from other substances
noun
3. 
a nonessential person or thing

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Nonessential

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adjective
1. 
not essential; of relatively no importance; unnecessary
2.  Biochemistry
designating biological compounds, esp. amino acids, required by living systems, that can be made in adequate amounts from other dietary constituents
noun
3. 
a nonessential person or thing

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Nonessential

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adj.
1. Having little or no importance; not essential.
2. Being a substance that is required for normal functioning but does not need to be included in the diet because of the body's ability to synthesize it from other nutrients: nonessential amino acid.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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