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[ uhn-nes-uh-ser-ee ] / ʌnˈnɛs əˌsɛr i / SEE SYNONYMS FOR unnecessary ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivenot necessary or essential; needless; unessential. noun, plural un·nec·es·sar·ies.unnecessaries, things that are not necessary or essential. Origin of unnecessaryFirst recorded in 1540–50; un-1 + necessary OTHER WORDS FROM unnecessaryun·nec·es·sar·i·ly [uhn-nes-uh-sair-uh-lee, -nes-uh-ser-], /ʌnˌnɛs əˈsɛər ə li, -ˈnɛs əˌsɛr-/, adverbun·nec·es·sar·i·ness, nounWords nearby unnecessaryunmyelinated fiber, Unna boot, unnail, unnamed, unnatural, unnecessary, unnerve, unnilennium, unnilhexium, unniloctium, unnilpentium Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for unnecessarySure, doctors may have said this was unnecessary, but who are you going to believe: Doctors or George Will? George Will, Fox News, and the Beginning of an Ebola Conspiracy|Russell Saunders|October 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST The U.K. alone is now treating 300 women and girls each month for the aftereffects of the brutal, unnecessary surgery. The West’s Female-Genital Mutilation Wake-Up Call|Charlotte Lytton|October 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST For these people, unnecessary police violence is an all too frequent reality. Police Brutality's Hidden Victims: The Disabled|Elizabeth Heideman|September 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST This is an important and complex topic, but to some, it seems like an unnecessary question. Girls Love Science. We Tell Them Not To.|Tauriq Moosa|July 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Americans have cried for decades that our federal government is bloated, that there are too many duplicative and unnecessary laws. Former Lobbyist Jack Abramoff On Congressional Travel Disclosure|Jack Abramoff|July 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST Any unnecessary work or any recreation which hinders us from hearing and profiting by God's Word is sinful. An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism|Joseph Stump The cost of building churches and supporting ministers would thus have been unnecessary, but God does not do things in that way. With the Children on Sunday|Sylvanus Stall I could have done with fewer deeds of unnecessary kindness and more words of unguarded intimacy. Witching Hill|E. W. Hornung It is unnecessary to say how welcome the proposition was to me. Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth|George Brandes Very much may be said on this subject, but I hope, more at present is unnecessary. Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies|John Dickinson
British Dictionary definitions for unnecessaryDerived forms of unnecessaryunnecessarily, adverbunnecessariness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to unnecessaryworthless, needless, superfluous, gratuitous, redundant, useless, avoidable, unneeded, irrelevant, futile, accidental, additional, beside the point, casual, chance, dispensable, excess, exorbitant, expendable, extraneous |