Synonym: excess, needless, superfluous, uncalled-for, unessential. Antonym: necessary. Similar words: necessary, necessity, make a virtue of necessity, incessant, recess, cessation, incessantly, recession. Meaning: adj. not necessary.
181. And then all ties were irksome, all earthly attachments unnecessary.
182. Automation has largely dispensed with the need for manual checking, ie made it unnecessary.
183. Unnecessary variation is the enemy of a coherent, usable design.
184. We'll have to be ruthless if we want to eliminate unnecessary waste.
More similar words: necessary, necessity, make a virtue of necessity, incessant, recess, cessation, incessantly, recession, secession, recessive, tunnel, runner, stunned, connect, connected, connection, adversary, anniversary, be connected with, essay, go to pieces, mess about, excess, access, process, success, cession, mary wollstonecraft, excessive, processor.