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als bijvoeglijk naamwoord: - 1
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1 nonessential
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1 nonessential
Not of prime or central importance:
— Nonessential to the integral meanings of poetry.
synoniemen: accidental, incidental.
Roget 643:
unimportant;
of little account,
of small account,
of no account,
of little importance,
of no importance
etc.
642;
immaterial;
unessential,
nonessential;
indifferent.
subordinate
etc.
(inferior)
34;
mediocre
etc.
(average)
29;
passable,
fair,
respectable,
tolerable,
commonplace;
uneventful,
mere,
common;
ordinary
etc.
(habitual)
613;
inconsiderable,
so-so,
insignificant,
inappreciable.
trifling,
trivial;
slight,
slender,
light,
flimsy,
frothy,
idle;
puerile
etc.
(foolish)
499;
airy,
shallow;
weak
etc.
160;
powerless
etc.
158;
frivolous,
petty,
niggling;
piddling,
peddling;
fribble†,
inane,
ridiculous,
farcical;
finical,
finikin†;
fiddle-faddle,
fingle-fangle†,
namby-pamby,
wishy-washy,
milk and water.
poor,
paltry,
pitiful;
contemptible
etc.
(contempt)
930;
sorry,
mean,
meager,
shabby,
miserable,
wretched,
vile,
scrubby,
scrannel†,
weedy,
niggardly,
scurvy,
putid†,
beggarly,
worthless,
twopennyhalfpenny,
cheap,
trashy,
catchpenny,
gimcrack,
trumpery;
one-horse [U.S.].
not worth the pains,
not worth while,
not worth mentioning,
not worth speaking of,
not worth a thought,
not worth a curse,
not worth a straw
etc.
n.;
beneath notice,
unworthy of notice,
beneath regard,
unworthy of regard,
beneath consideration,
unworthy of consideration;
de lana caprina [It];
vain
etc.
(useless)
645.
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Roget 6:
derived from without;
objective;
extrinsic,
extrinsical†;
extraneous
etc.
(foreign)
57;
modal,
adventitious;
ascititious†,
adscititious†;
incidental,
accidental,
nonessential;
contingent,
fortuitous.
implanted,
ingrafted†;
inculcated,
infused.
outward,
apparent
etc.
(external)
220.
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Moby betekeniswoordenboek: accessory, accident, accidental, addendum, addition, additional, adjunct, adrift, adscititious, adventitious, aleatory, appendage, appurtenance, appurtenant, ascititious, auxiliary, back-burner, beside the mark, beside the point, beside the question, casual, circumstantial, collateral, conditional, contingency, contingent, de trop, dinky, dispensable, excess, expendable, expletive, extra, extraneous, extrinsic, fortuitous, gratuitous, happenstance, immaterial, impertinent, in excess, inadmissible, inapplicable, inapposite, inappreciable, inappropriate, incidental, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inessential, inferior, insignificant, irrelative, irrelevant, little, mere chance, minor, minute, needless, negligible, nihil ad rem, not at issue, not vital, not-self, occasional, off the subject, other, out-of-the-way, parenthetical, petit, pleonastic, prolix, provisional, redundant, secondary, small, spare, subsidiary, superadded, superaddition, supererogatory, superfluous, supervenient, supplement, supplemental, supplementary, tautologic, tautologous, technical, to spare, uncalled-for, unessential, unimpressive, unnecessary, unneeded, unnoteworthy, unrequired, verbose ... meer laten zien.
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