Synonyms for unnecessary
ʌnˈnɛs əˌsɛr iun·nec·es·sa·ry

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1. unnecessaryadjective

   Not needed or necessary.

   The automatic child-frightener made clowns unnecessary.

   Synonyms:
   unneeded, superfluous, needless, innecessary

   Antonyms:
   needed, necessary

2. unnecessaryadjective

   Done in addition to requirements; unrequired.

   Synonyms:
   additional, innecessary

   Antonyms:
   required, mandatory

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1. unnecessary

   Synonyms:
   casual, contingent, needless, non-essential, optional, useless, worthless

   Antonyms:
   essential, indispensable, inevitable, infallible, necessary, needed, needful, required, requisite, unavoidable, undeniable

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1. unnecessary

   Synonyms:
   uncalled for, useless, needless

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1. unnecessary, unneededadjective

   not necessary

   Synonyms:
   unneeded

   Antonyms:
   required, obligatory, incumbent, necessary, essential, needed, requisite, needful, indispensable

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1. unnecessaryadjective

   Synonyms:
   needless, useless, not requisite, not needed

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1. unnecessaryadjective

   Synonyms:
   superfluous, useless, needless, uncalled for, expletive, redundant, supernumerary

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1. List of paraphrases for "unnecessary":

   superfluous, needless, useless, pointless, unneeded, undue, redundant, futile, unwarranted, non-essential, worthless, unhelpful, wasteful, avoidable, meaningless, necessary, vain, unjustified

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1. Carl Icahn:

   I really do feel emotional about these animals and the unnecessary suffering you put them through, a pig has a good brain and it's a feeling animal.

2. Samantha Heller:

   Most people have no idea how much unnecessary sugar they are eating or from whence it comes, while sugar is a perfectly fine ingredient in many recipes, we are consuming far too much of it and in high amounts in foods that have little or no nutritional value. With the new label consumers will be able to identify the foods that perhaps they should be eating less of.

3. Mahathir Mohamad:

   We need to do away with some of the unnecessary projects, for example the high-speed rail, which is going to cost us 110 billion ringgit( $ 28 billion) and will not earn us a single cent. That will be dropped.

4. Arthur Wellesley:

   Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.

5. David Juurlink:

   For many patients, dietary modification( less fat and alcohol) would make acid-lowering drugs unnecessary and would impart other long-term benefits as well, patients should appreciate that, like all drugs, PPIs carry risk. The fact that they're available over the counter doesn't mean they're safe.