3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Needless \Nee"dless\, a. 1. Having no need. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Weeping into the needless stream. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Not wanted; unnecessary; not requisite; as, needless labor; needless expenses. [1913 Webster] 3. Without sufficient cause; groundless; causeless. "Needless jealousy." --Shak. [1913 Webster] -- {Need"less*ly}, adv. -- {Need"less*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: needlessly adv : without need; "it would needlessly bring badness into the world" From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 19 Moby Thesaurus words for "needlessly": aimlessly, beyond need, beyond reason, bootlessly, fecklessly, fruitlessly, futilely, overplus, pointlessly, purposelessly, redundantly, supererogatorily, superfluously, tautologously, to little purpose, to no purpose, unnecessarily, uselessly, vainly
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