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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unnecessary |
| Synonyms: | accidental, additional, avoidable, beside the point, casual, causeless, chance, dispensable, excess, exorbitant, expendable, extraneous, extrinsic, fortuitous, futile, gratuitous, haphazard, irrelevant, lavish, needless, noncompulsory, nonessential, optional, prodigal, profuse, random, redundant, supererogatory, superfluous, surplus, uncalled-for, uncritical, undesirable, unessential, unneeded, unrequired, useless, wanton, worthless |
| Main Entry: | extra |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | accessory; excess |
| Synonyms: | added, additional, ancillary, another, auxiliary, beyond, button, extraneous, extraordinary, fresh, further, fuss*, gingerbread, gravy, ice*, in addition, in reserve, in store, inessential, lagniappe, leftover, more, needless, new, one more, optional, other, over and above, perk*, plus, redundant, reserve, spare, special, superfluous, supernumerary, supplemental, supplementary, surplus, tip, unnecessary, unneeded, unused |
| Antonyms: | basic, elementary, essential, fundamental, integral, necessary |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | extraneous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unneeded; irrevelant |
| Synonyms: | accidental, additional, adventitious, beside the point, extra, foreign, immaterial, impertinent, inadmissible, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, incidental, inessential, needless, nonessential, off the subject, peripheral, pointless, redundant, superfluous, supplementary, unconnected, unessential, unnecessary, unrelated |
| Antonyms: | appropriate, basic, essential, integral, necessary, needed, pertinent, relevant |
| Main Entry: | gratuitous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not necessary |
| Synonyms: | assumed, baseless, bottomless, causeless, groundless, indefensible, inessential, needless, reasonless, supererogatory, superfluous, uncalled-for, unessential, unfounded, unjustified, unmerited, unprovoked, unsupportable, unwarranted, wanton |
| Notes: | grateful means feeling or showing gratitude or feeling thankful; gratified means having received what was desired; gratuitous means costing nothing or free - unnecessary or unwarranted - without cause |
| Antonyms: | deserved, needed, reasonable, warranted |
| Main Entry: | immaterial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irrelevant |
| Synonyms: | extraneous, foreign, impertinent, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inconsiderate, inessential, insignificant, irrelative, matter of indifference, meaningless, no big deal, no never mind, of no account, of no consequence, of no importance, trifling, trivial, unimportant, unnecessary |
| Antonyms: | essential, important, material, meaningful, relevant, substantial |
| Main Entry: | needless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unnecessary, groundless |
| Synonyms: | causeless, dispensable, excessive, expendable, gratuitous, inessential, nonessential, pointless, redundant, superfluous, uncalled-for, undesired, unrequired, unwanted, useless |
| Antonyms: | grounded, necessary, needed |
| Main Entry: | nonessential |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not needed or important |
| Synonyms: | deadwood, dispensable, excess baggage, excessive, expendable, extraneous, inessential, insignificant, peripheral, petty, superfluous, trivial, unimportant, unnecessary |
| Antonyms: | essential, important, necessary, needed |
| Main Entry: | peripheral |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | minor, outside |
| Synonyms: | beside the point, borderline, exterior, external, incidental, inessential, irrelevant, minor, outer, outermost, perimetric, secondary, superficial, surface, tangential, unimportant |
| Antonyms: | central, crucial, internal, major |
| Main Entry: | petty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | trivial, insignificant |
| Synonyms: | base, casual, cheap, contemptible, frivolous, inconsequent, inconsiderable, inessential, inferior, irrelevant, junior, lesser, light, little, lower, measly, minor, narrow-minded, negligible, nickel-and-dime, niggling, paltry, peanut, penny-ante, pettifogging, picayune, piddling, scratch, secondary, shabby, shallow, shoestring, slight, small, small-minded, subordinate, trifling, two-bit, unimportant |
| Notes: | paltry means not worth considering or contemptibly small in amount; petty means inferior in rank or status or contemptibly narrow in outlook |
| Antonyms: | consequential, important, major, necessary, prominent, significant, useful |
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