Needlessly

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Needless \Nee"dless\, a.
     1. Having no need. [Obs.]
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              Weeping into the needless stream.     --Shak.
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     2. Not wanted; unnecessary; not requisite; as, needless
        labor; needless expenses.
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     3. Without sufficient cause; groundless; causeless. "Needless
        jealousy." --Shak.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Need"less*ly}, adv. --
        {Need"less*ness}, n.
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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