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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Needless \Nee"dless\, adjective
1. Having no need. [Obs.]
Weeping into the needless stream. --Shak.
2. Not wanted; unnecessary; not requisite; as, needless labor; needless expenses.
3. Without sufficient cause; groundless; causeless. ''Needless jealousy.'' --Shak. -- {Need"less*ly}, adverb -- {Need"less*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
needless
adjective: unnecessary and unwarranted; "a strikers' tent camp...was burned with needless loss of life" [syn: {gratuitous}, {uncalled-for}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
30 Moby Thesaurus words for "needless": de trop, dispensable, excess, excessive, expendable, expletive, gratuitous, in excess, inessential, naturally, nonessential, obviously, pleonastic, prolix, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, tautologic, tautological, tautologous, to spare, uncalled-for, unessential, unnecessary, unneeded, unrequired, unwanted, useless, verbose
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