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  • 71needless — I adjective avoidable, beside the point, causeless, dispensable, excess, excessive, exorbitant, expendable, expletive, extra, extraneous, fruitless, futile, gratuitous, groundless, inordinate, irrelevant, non necessahus, noncompulsory,… …

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  • 72supplementary — sup·ple·men·ta·ry /ˌsə plə men tə rē, trē/ adj: added or serving as a supplement Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. supplementary …

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  • 73trivial — I adjective cursory, empty, foolish, frivolous, inane, inappreciable, inconsiderable, indifferent, idle, immaterial, inconsequential, inferior, insignificant, levis, light, little, meager, meaningless, mediocre, minute, negligible, nominal,… …

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  • 74unessential — I adjective adventicius, dispensable, extraneous, extrinsic, immaterial, inapposite, incidental, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, irrelevant, meaningless, minor, needless, negligible, nonessential, of no account, of no consequence …

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  • 75needless — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. unnecessary, pointless, purposeless, superfluous. See uselessness.Ant., needful. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. unwanted, excessive, groundless; see unnecessary , useless 1 . III (Roget s 3… …

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  • 76unnecessary — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. useless, needless, inessential, superfluous, dispensable. See uselessness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. needless, causeless, fortuitous, casual, chance, haphazard, wanton, accidental, unessential,… …

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  • 77accidental — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Happening by chance] Syn. chance, fortuitous, coincidental, unintentional, inadvertent, unplanned, unpremeditated, undesigned, unwitting, uncalculated, unintended, unanticipated, unforeseen, unexpected, casual,… …

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  • 78accidental — adjective 1) an accidental meeting Syn: fortuitous, chance, adventitious, fluky, coincidental, casual, serendipitous, random; unexpected, unforeseen, unanticipated, unlooked for, unintentional, unintended, inadvertent, unplanned …

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  • 79accidental — ac•ci•den•tal [[t]ˌæk sɪˈdɛn tl[/t]] adj. 1) happening by chance or accident 2) nonessential; incidental: accidental benefits[/ex] 3) mad pertaining to or indicating sharps, flats, or naturals in music 4) a nonessential or subsidiary circumstance …

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  • 80essential — [adj1] important, vital capital, cardinal, chief, constitutive, crucial, foremost, fundamental, imperative, indispensable, leading, main, necessary, necessitous, needed, needful, prerequisite, principal, required, requisite, righthand, wanted;… …

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