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adjectivesubessential (comparative more subessential, superlative most subessential)
comparative more subessential · superlative most subessential
- rareLess 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 early-bird special, […]
2020, David Lee, Why Am I Why I Am?
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