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unnecessary definition

un·nec·es·sary (-nes′ə ser′ē)

adjective

not necessary or required; needless

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unnecessary Synonyms

unnecessary

modif.

needless, causeless, fortuitous, casual, chance, haphazard, wanton, accidental, unessential, nonessential, beside the point, irrelevant, futile, extraneous, additional, redundant, useless, exorbitant, superfluous, worthless, undesirable, optional, avoidable, objectionable, disadvantageous, noncompulsory, random, dispensable, adventitious, without compulsion, uncalled for, pleonastic, gratuitous.

Antonyms necessary*, essential*, required.


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unnecessary Usage Examples

Infinitive complement

  • repeat: Mr Wilson said: " It is unnecessary to repeat that whole review.

Modifying Another Word

  • wholly: This is a brutal, nasty and wholly unnecessary provision.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • render: Plate 4 contains these things in sufficient detail to render any description unnecessary.

Modifies a noun

  • duplication: The result of that has saved unnecessary duplication for our member firms.

Used with adjective complement

  • deem: Where planning permission is deemed unnecessary by the Department, then this also must be produced in writing.
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A group of theunwilling, picked fromtheunfit, to dothe unnecessary.

-Harkness, Richard Long

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

-Hoffman, Hans

What vain, unnecessary things are men, How well we do without 'em!

-Rochester,JohnWilmot, 2nd Earl of

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