gratuitous, needless, uncalled-for
(adjective) unnecessary and unwarranted; “a strikers’ tent camp...was burned with needless loss of life”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
needless (comparative more needless, superlative most needless)
Not needed; unnecessary.
Antonym: needful
needless (comparative more needless, superlative most needless)
(archaic) Needlessly, without cause.
• 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
19 April 2025
(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
