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mere, superficial, inconsequential, petty, of no consequence/of little consequence, unimportant, irrelevant, minor, unconsidered, meaningless.
insignificance, unconcrete, unsubstantial, nonexistence, apparitional, null, weightless, empty, illusory, unreal, immaterial, tenuous, vacuous, spectral, chimerical, ethereal, phantasmal, impalpable, intangible, vacant.
complementary, nonessential, uncalled-for, complemental, dispensable, completing, incidental, unwarranted, gratuitous, unneeded, unnecessary, unrequired, necessary, needless, unessential.
They seemed to her inessential. - "Hilda Lessways", Arnold Bennett.
It was by realising this fact, and applying his exceptionally fine critical intuition to this task, that Professor Raleigh, considering the essentials, was able to draw a very much more convincing picture of the personality of Shakespeare than that which was drawn, brilliantly indeed, by Mr. Frank Harris; but Mr. Harris, I think, devoted his attention to qualities in Shakespeare which- whether in any sense real or not- were in any case secondary and inessential elements in the dramatist's character. - "Personality in Literature", Rolfe Arnold Scott-James.
She had been afraid of a hundred contingencies only this morning, fretted with tiny necessities, annoyed by inessential details. - "Undertow", Kathleen Norris.