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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How to use unnecessary in a sentence?

1. Michael Steel:

   It doesn't feel like the government shutdown fight, something that was kind of colossally stupid and public and unnecessary, it feels like the debate over creating the Benghazi Select Committee.

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. Josh Shapiro:

   In sum, Norfolk Southern injected unnecessary risk into this crisis.

4. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska:

   He was doing fine with moral courage until he got to the head on the pike. That's where he lost me, he was moving right along with the good oratory, and then he got to a couple places and it was just unnecessary.

5. Beckett:

   Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.