Crossword clues for needless
needless
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Needless \Nee"dless\, a.
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Having no need. [Obs.]
Weeping into the needless stream.
--Shak. Not wanted; unnecessary; not requisite; as, needless labor; needless expenses.
Without sufficient cause; groundless; causeless. ``Needless jealousy.''
--Shak. [1913 Webster] -- Need"less*ly, adv. -- Need"less*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "not needed, unnecessary," from need (n) + -less. Related: Needlessly. Phrase needless to say or speak is recorded from early 16c.
Wiktionary
a. Not needed; unnecessary.
WordNet
adj. unnecessary and unwarranted; "a strikers' tent camp...was burned with needless loss of life" [syn: gratuitous, uncalled-for]
Wikipedia
Needless (stylized as NEEDLESS) is a Japanese manga and anime. This may also refer to:
- Something unnecessary to be needed.
Usage examples of "needless".
Her violent contortions over the tabouret, needless to say, showed off the most secret parts of her nubile young body in the most lascivious way, and Maude righteously exhorted Charlene to take her birching humbly and not be such an indecent minx, advice which poor Charlene could not have heeded at this point, much less count off the strokes.
Needless to say, the cicalas around us keep up their perpetual sonorous chirping.
The Christians of Maine, facing tasks of evangelization more than sufficient to occupy all their resources even when well economized and squandering nothing on needless divisions and competitions, have attained to the high grace of saying that sectarian interests must and shall be sacrificed when the paramount interests of the kingdom of Christ require it.
Needless to say, such a thing as a female exceptor or scribe would be unnatural and unthinkable.
In the olden days there was a timorous legend representing Taliacotius making noses for his patients from the gluteal regions of other persons, which statement, needless to say, is not founded on fact.
Needless to say, this undeniable threat has cost her whatever support she may have enjoyed among the subbrains.
In no other nation, probably, is there such a general summer hejira, no other offers on such a vast scale such a variety of entertainment, and it is needless to say that history presents no parallel to this general movement of a people for a summer outing.
Needless to say, one expects that you, Ru Kamik, will be zealous in supporting the revised Grand Design.
Crusade of the Spirit, needless to say, for the greater glory of Koot Hoomi.
Americanism first recorded in 1840 and attacked as a needless lexical affectation within the year.
This muddled my plans and caused me a great deal of needless irritation.
Needless to say, both of those numbskulls were destroyed by the first half-witted heroes who came along.
Needless to say that the obtention of such an official recognition from the authorities is an historic step in the development of the Administrative Order of the Faith throughout India and Burma, and one which shall greatly enhance its prestige, and consolidate its position in the eyes of the public.
It is needless to intimidate the reader by drawing up these four moods in battle array: they always admit of reduction to the foregoing moods by obverting the hypotheticals.
Needless to say all this very misleading information was received by the audience with an attention that I can but call rapt, and in a kind of holy silence which was broken only by a sudden burst of sniggering on the part of Scroope.