Another word for unnecessary
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Adjective
Not necessary
- Not necessary or important; dispensable.
- One that is unnecessary.
- Not required or requested; unwanted:
- Not justified or deserved; unwarranted:
- Having little or no importance; not essential.
- Being a substance that is required for normal functioning but does not need to be included in the diet because of the body's ability to synthesize it from other nutrients:
- Not needed or wished for; unnecessary.
- Not essential; unessential.
- Without essence.
- Something that is not essential.
- Not essential; unimportant:
- Capable of being dispensed, administered, or distributed:
- Subject to dispensation, as a vow or church law.
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Another word for unnecessary
Modifier
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- Given or granted without return or recompense; unearned.
- Given or received without cost or obligation; free.
- Unnecessary or unwarranted; unjustified:
- Not required or requested; unwanted:
- Not justified or deserved; unwarranted:
- Arising from an external cause or factor; not inherent:
- Of or belonging to a structure that develops in an unusual place:
- Not essential; unimportant:
- Capable of being dispensed, administered, or distributed:
- Subject to dispensation, as a vow or church law.
- Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective:
- Of or relating to a type of circumstance or event that is described by a probability distribution.
- Of or relating to an event in which all outcomes are equally likely, as in the testing of a blood sample for the presence of a substance.
- Detrimental; unfavorable.
- Deserving disapproval; offensive:
- Capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable.
- Capable of being avoided, shunned, or escaped.
- Something that can be avoided.
- Left to choice; not compulsory or automatic.
- Not likely to please; objectionable:
- Not wanted:
- A person regarded as undesirable:
- Lacking worth; of no use or value.
- Low; despicable:
- Being beyond what is required or sufficient.
- Going beyond what is reasonable or customary, especially in cost or price:
- Being or having no beneficial use; ineffective:
- Having no purpose or reason; pointless; to no avail:
- Incapable of acting or functioning effectively; ineffectual or inept:
- Exceeding what is necessary or natural; superfluous.
- Needlessly wordy or repetitive in expression:
- Of or relating to linguistic redundancy.
- added; more; extra
- Not constituting an essential or vital element or part:
- Unrelated to the topic or matter at hand.
- Coming from the outside:
- Having no useful result; ineffectual:
- Unrelated to the matter being considered.
- (idiomatic) Irrelevant, moot.
- (idiomatic) Irrelevantly, off-topic.
- Having little or no importance; not essential.
- Being a substance that is required for normal functioning but does not need to be included in the diet because of the body's ability to synthesize it from other nutrients:
- Not necessary or important; dispensable.
- One that is unnecessary.
- Occurring unexpectedly, unintentionally, or by chance.
- Of or relating to an accidental.
- Being an animal, especially a bird, that has strayed beyond its normal range.
- Lascivious or promiscuous. Used especially of women.
- Exciting or expressing sexual desire:
- Marked by unprovoked, gratuitous maliciousness; capricious and unjust:
- Dependent upon or characterized by mere chance.
- Mere chance; fortuity.
- By chance; casually.
- The unknown and unpredictable element in happenings that seems to have no assignable cause.
- A force assumed to cause events that cannot be foreseen or controlled; luck:
- The likelihood of something happening; possibility or probability:
- Being without ceremony or formality; relaxed or informal:
- Unpremeditated or offhand:
- Suited for everyday wear or informal use:
- Happening by accident or chance.
- Resulting in good fortune; lucky.
- Having no obvious cause; fortuitous or inexplicable
- groundless or unreasonable
- Not needed or wished for; unnecessary.
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