noncrucial
Can be skipped
Noncrucial means not essential or critical to an outcome.
Something noncrucial can be skipped, delayed, or omitted without serious consequences: We cut the noncrucial features to meet the deadline.
The word often appears in contexts where priorities must be sorted—noncrucial tasks, noncrucial personnel, noncrucial details.
Lacking importance or consequence
- inessentialNot strictly necessary
- trivialLacking significance or weight
- minorScale with lowered third
- negligibleToo small to consider
secondary · nonessential · dispensable · unnecessary · incidental · immaterial · inconsequential · marginal
Providing additional support
- auxiliaryGiving additional support
- supplementaryServing to complete
- accessorySupplementary addition
- subsidiaryOf lesser importance
adjunct · supporting · complementary · add-on · additional · extra · collateral · backup
Of little importance
- triflingOf no real importance
- piddlingInsignificantly small
- picayuneOf trivial importance
- nugatoryWithout worth or effect
minuscule · nominal · paltry · frivolous · lightweight · insubstantial · small-time · minor-league
insignificant
Lacking importance or consequence
- inessentialNot strictly necessary
- trivialLacking significance or weight
- minorScale with lowered third
negligible · secondary · nonessential · dispensable · unnecessary · incidental · immaterial · inconsequential · marginal · extraneous
ancillary
Providing additional support
- auxiliaryGiving additional support
- supplementaryServing to complete
- accessorySupplementary addition
subsidiary · adjunct · supporting · complementary · add-on · additional · extra · collateral · backup · reserve
petty
Of little importance
nugatory · minuscule · nominal · paltry · frivolous · lightweight · insubstantial · small-time · minor-league · inconsequential
tangential
Barely connected to main point
- fringeOutermost edge or margin
- outlyingDistant from center
- borderlineEdge of acceptability
marginal · outer · external · side · lateral · distant · removed · indirect · offshoot · satellite
crucial, crucially, crux, crucible, crucify, crucifixion, cruciform, crossing, excruciating