'Needless' definitions:
Definition of 'needless'
From: WordNet
adjective
Unnecessary and unwarranted; "a strikers' tent camp...was burned with needless loss of life" [syn: gratuitous, needless, uncalled-for]
Definition of 'Needless'
From: GCIDE
- Needless \Nee"dless\, a.
- 1. Having no need. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Weeping into the needless stream. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Not wanted; unnecessary; not requisite; as, needless labor; needless expenses. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Without sufficient cause; groundless; causeless. "Needless jealousy." --Shak. [1913 Webster] -- {Need"less*ly}, adv. -- {Need"less*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'needless'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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