NEEDLESS

gratuitous, needless, uncalled-for

(adjective) unnecessary and unwarranted; “a strikers’ tent camp...was burned with needless loss of life”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

needless (comparative more needless, superlative most needless)

Not needed; unnecessary.

Antonym: needful

Adverb

needless (comparative more needless, superlative most needless)

(archaic) Needlessly, without cause.

Anagrams

• lessened, seldseen

Source: Wiktionary


Nee"dless, a.

1. Having no need. [Obs.] Weeping into the needless stream. Shak.

2. Not wanted; unnecessary; not requiste; as, needless labor; needless expenses.

3. Without sufficient cause; groundless; cuseless. "Needless jealousy." Shak.

– Need"less*ly, adv.

– Need"less*ness, n.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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ENDLESSLY

(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”


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