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, unnecessary

   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. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton:

   We must work together as Texans to stop the spread of Covid-19 and ensure that our health care professionals and facilities have all the resources they need to fight the virus at this time, no one is exempt from the governor's executive order on medically unnecessary surgeries and procedures, including abortion providers. Those who violate the governor's order will be met with the full force of the law.

2. Tim Scott:

   After watching the video, the senseless shooting and taking of Walter Scott's life was absolutely unnecessary and avoidable. My heart aches for the family and our North Charleston community. I will be watching this case closely.

3. Sigmund Freud:

   The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary which have no right whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe, constitutionally fixed illnesses, which rarely restrict themselves to only a few attacks but persist as a rule over long periods throughout life.

4. George Butterworth:

   There are potential unintended consequences particularly that e-cigarettes are an opportunity for people to move away from tobacco smoking which is very, very bad for their health and we wouldn't want to put up any unnecessary barriers to prevent people from quitting cigarettes.

5. Jonathan Reiner:

   That's what the Israelis are going to do, and it's clear to me that's what we're going to do. We're just going to take it at an unnecessary, unacceptably long period of time to get to the point where we get a fourth dose. And I want to see a sense of urgency. Even more than urgency, I want to see a sense of nimbleness.