Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Not needed or wished for; unnecessary.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having no need; not in want of anything.
- Not wanted; unnecessary; not requisite: as, needless labor; needless expense.
- Needlessly; without cause.
Wiktionary
- adj. Not needed; unnecessary.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. obsolete Having no need.
- adj. Not wanted; unnecessary; not requisite
- adj. Without sufficient cause; groundless; causeless.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. unnecessary and unwarranted
Etymologies
- need + -less (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Accordingly he repaired to the Hotel de Ville, and gave to the Municipal Council so distinct an account of his measures, and of his reason for taking them, that, though Danton and some of his more factious colleagues reproached him for exhibiting what they called a needless distrust of the people, the majority of the Council approved of his conduct, and dismissed him to return to his duties.”
“Mr Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, became the first senior Government minister to appear on television to talk about the riots - which he described as "needless, opportunist theft and violence" - since they erupted on Saturday night.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“Michael Kelley, a non-smoker who survived cancer his doctor blamed on second-hand smoke in the workplace, asked lawmakers to put an end to what he called needless suffering.”
“It's more likely for a person to be struck by lightning than impersonate a voter," said Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, D-San Antonio, who heads the Senate's Democratic caucus, in denouncing what she called a needless and politically motivated bill that would echo Texas's”
“Yuko told NBC4 he wants to ease what he described as needless pain and suffering associated with a variety of diseases and illnesses.”
“Unfortunately for all Americans, compromised healthcare ALWAYS results in needless suffering, injury, disability, and or death.”
“(Doubtless, these flimsy conspiracy theorists will infest the comment threads in needless defense.)”
The Huffington Post: Chase Whiteside: New Left Media at the Rally to Restore Sanity (VIDEO)
“For them, it was easy to send other people's children to fight and die in needless wars (Iraq).”
“Then there were the 1.3 Trillion in needless tax cuts for the rich, further skewing the already miserably obscene income inequitable distribution.”
“Mr. President, if you want to reduce costs, don't sociailize the medical system, stop the frivolous lawsuits that result in needless procedures and skyrocketing costs.”
Obama: 'If you misrepresent what's in the plan, we will call you out'
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘needless’.
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-more or -less
Words ending with *more or *less, more or less. Many of theses terms also appear on the list The -less Said, which see.
schemaless, unless, useless, guileless, wireless, regardless, homeless, endless, nevertheless, countless, jobless, doubtless and 434 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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The -less Said...
hopeless, bootless, groundless, luckless, artless, feckless, hapless, joyless, useless, penniless, childless, peerless and 310 more...
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 more...
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Scriptie: The Fellowship of the Ring
the world is changed, much that once wa..., great rings, immortal, dwarf lords, miners, craftsmen, three, seven, nine, deceived, dark lord and 216 more...
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MEC1 Lesson 111
mortgage, pay off, expenses, furnish, from now on, make do, needless, get a move on, blow one's top, give me a break, good life, blizzard and 3 more...
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willson's Words
kestrel, merlin, cormorant, newt, eschew, needless, heedless, caliche, sendero
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