An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
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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