unnecessary

Adjective

Meaning

not necessary

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

unneeded needless superfluous necessary deadwood minor extra excess excessive optional surplus spare peripheral trivial useless
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Antonyms

necessary required needed mandatory central idiopathic
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Phrases with the word

unnecessary person make unnecessary additions unnecessary item unnecessary burden unnecessary load unnecessary burdens

Examples

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Hans Hofmann

Each word seemed to me an unnecessary stain on silence of nothingness. Samuel Beckett

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. Pablo Picasso

...we live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. Oscar Wilde

Putting importance to an irrelevant and unnecessary occasion. Bengali Proverb

The is unnecessary to make a fuss of any sort of thrash. Swedish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

unnecessarily unnecessarily burdensome unnecessariness unnecessary burden unnecessary burdens unnecessary constraints