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unnecessary
Word definitions for unnecessary in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES an unnecessary expense ▪ Paying extra for leather seats seemed like an unnecessary expense. totally unacceptable/unnecessary/unsuitable etc ▪ Terrorism is totally unacceptable in a civilised world. unnecessary hardship ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, from un- (1) "not" + necessary (adj.). Related: Unnecessarily .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unnecessary \Un*nec"es*sa*ry\, a. Not necessary; not required under the circumstances; unless; needless; as, unnecessary labor, care, or rigor. -- Un*nec"es*sa*ri*ly , adv. -- Un*nec"es*sa*ri*ness , n.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Not needed or necessary.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. not necessary [syn: unneeded ] [ant: necessary ]
Usage examples of unnecessary.
If acetic acid is used instead of nitric in the first instance this addition of water is unnecessary.
The topics insisted on, however, were for the most part identical with those which had for a series of years been repeatedly adduced in the commons, so that a repetition of them is unnecessary.
The other British force which faced the Boers who were advancing through Stormberg was commanded by General Gatacre, a man who bore a high reputation for fearlessness and tireless energy, though he had been criticised, notably during the Soudan campaign, for having called upon his men for undue and unnecessary exertion.
But to conclude from any such admissions that a systematic policy of promoting individual and national amelioration should be abandoned in wholly unnecessary.
The Apologists had no doubt as to what it reveals, and therefore any investigation was unnecessary.
United States and Russia still exist, and little bilateral effort has been made to reduce these unnecessary weapons, with mandatory verification of such agreements and the dismantling and disposal of decommissioned weapons.
Had this been done, it would have been unnecessary for the manufacturers to point out that cocoa powder was not being so exported, and that they naturally did not sell the raw cacao bean.
Kurman and Cleer decided it unnecessary to search their prisoner for weapons.
I even spent some time in Paris studying clochards, but I decided that their way of life is both uncomfortable and unnecessary and leads to what most lives lead to, a half-conscious dream that turns in a half-circle.
Nanette said immediately that she would come downstairs with her sister, but Madame Orio answered that it was unnecessary, as they could lock themselves in their room.
But my eloquence was unnecessary, for the general liked to see priests attend to the business of Heaven, but he could not bear them to meddle in temporal affairs.
Charles I clung so tenaciously to the principle of divine right that he considered it unnecessary to be just and loyal to those who denied it.
English reader, we have thought it unnecessary to use the dieresis in such cases.
English reader, we have thought it unnecessary to use the dieresis in similar cases.
He cited the deception of Yakim Douan as the primary reason for the destructive and unnecessary rift between the two churches, Abellican and Chezru.