subessential

Less than essential; unimportant.

Adjective

  1. Less than essential; unimportant.
    • There were other things pressing, but look how subessential—continuing to read the pulp novel on the bed stand, droning through the video game on the computer, phoning the new restaurant to ask the time of the...

Origin

From sub- + essential.

Forms

more subessential most subessential