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not needed by the circumstances or to accomplish an end
- he writes very spare prose, with nary an inessential word to be found
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'Essential' & 'Nonessential'
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“Inessential.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inessential. Accessed 23 Oct. 2021.
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The first known use of inessential was in 1677
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