Antonyms for needless
ˈnid lɪsneed·less

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1. needless

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

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

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1. needless

   Antonyms:
   needful, useful, helpful, obligatory

   Synonyms:
   unnecessary, useless, superfluous, gratuitous

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1. gratuitous, needless, uncalled-foradjective

   unnecessary and unwarranted

   "a strikers' tent camp...was burned with needless loss of life"

   Antonyms:
   necessary

   Synonyms:
   complimentary, costless, free, gratis(p), uncalled-for, gratuitous

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1. needlessadjective

   Synonyms:
   unnecessary, groundless, unfounded

How to use needless in a sentence?

1. Joe Biden:

   Anyone can't get a test around the country. Granted, more tests are coming forward, but look, this needless complacency that The President has engaged in from the very beginning, the President knew about this crisis all the way back in January and February. The President's been incompetent the way in which The President responded to it.

2. Chief Executive Officer Michael McCain:

   A MLF colleague of mine lost his wife and family this week to a needless, irresponsible series of events in Iran. U.S. government leaders unconstrained by checks/balances, concocted an ill-conceived plan to divert focus from political woes, the world knows Iran is a dangerous state, but the world found a path to contain it; not perfect but by most accounts it was the right direction.

3. Peter Nash:

   It was never my intention to cause upset or harm, but needless to say that is what happened.

4. Judge Alison J. Nathan:

   Needless to say, I am honored, but let me be clear : If I am nominated, I, like every other district judge who's been considered for elevation to the circuit, will continue to do my day job, which means presiding over this trial through completion and handling the literally hundreds of other civil and criminal matters on my docket.

5. Larry Strickland:

   Needless to say it brought great pleasure and comfort to me, we're showing the world what a dysfunctional family does.

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