Synonyms for needless
ˈnid lɪsneed·less

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1. needless

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

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

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1. needless

   Synonyms:
   unnecessary, useless, superfluous, gratuitous

   Antonyms:
   needful, useful, helpful, obligatory

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1. gratuitous, needless, uncalled-foradjective

   unnecessary and unwarranted

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

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

   Antonyms:
   necessary

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1. needlessadjective

   Synonyms:
   unnecessary, useless, not requisite, not needed

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1. needlessadjective

   Synonyms:
   unnecessary, groundless, unfounded

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1. List of paraphrases for "needless":

   unnecessary, strike, useless, pointless, superfluous, futile

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1. Narendra Surana:

   It is unfortunately a needless distraction for me. Now I'll be spending time answering to the regulator and stock exchange on what happened.

2. George Wither:

   I wonder how so insupportable a thing as a bookseller was ever permitted to grow up in the Commonwealth. Many of our modern booksellers are but needless excrements, or rather vermin.

3. Anthony Fauci:

   If we skip over the checkpoints in the guidelines to :' Open America Again,' then we risk the danger of multiple outbreaks throughout the country, this will not only result in needless suffering and death, but would actually set us back on our quest to return to normal.

4. Superintendent John Reinhart:

   Needless to say, she’s banned from substitute teaching in our schools.

5. Boris Johnson:

   Brexit should be about opportunity and hope, that dream is dying, suffocated by needless self-doubt.