needless

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: need=less

CIDE DICTIONARY

needless, a. 

•  Having no need.  [1913 Webster]

  "Weeping into the needless stream."  [1913 Webster]
•  Not wanted; unnecessary; not requisite; as, needless labor; needless expenses.  [1913 Webster]
•  Without sufficient cause; groundless; causeless.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

needless, adj.
1 unnecessary.
2 uncalled for; gratuitous.

Idiom

needless to say of course; it goes without saying.

Derivative

needlessly adv. needlessness n.

THESAURUS

needless

de trop, dispensable, excess, excessive, expendable, expletive, gratuitous, in excess, inessential, naturally, nonessential, obviously, pleonastic, prolix, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, tautologic, tautological, tautologous, to spare, uncalled-for, unessential, unnecessary, unneeded, unrequired, unwanted, useless, verbose

ROGET THESAURUS

needless

Redundancy

N redundancy, redundance, too much, too many, superabundance, superfluity, superfluence, saturation, nimiety, transcendency, exuberance, profuseness, profusion, repletion, enough in all conscience, satis superque, lion's share, more than enough, plethora, engorgement, congestion, load, surfeit, sickener, turgescence, overdose, overmeasure, oversupply, overflow, inundation, avalanche, accumulation, heap, drug, drug in the market, glut, crowd, burden, excess, surplus, overplus, epact, margin, remainder, duplicate, surplusage, expletive, work of supererogation, bonus, bonanza, luxury, intemperance, extravagance, exorbitance, lavishment, pleonasm, too many irons in the fire, embarras de richesses, redundant, too much, too many, exuberant, inordinate, superabundant, excessive, overmuch, replete, profuse, lavish, prodigal, exorbitant, overweening, extravagant, overcharged, supersaturated, drenched, overflowing, running over, running to waste, running down, crammed to overflowing, filled to overflowing, gorged, ready to burst, dropsical, turgid, plethoric, obese, superfluous, unnecessary, needless, supervacaneous, uncalled for, to spare, in excess, over and above, de trop, adscititious, supernumerary, on one's hands, spare, duplicate, supererogatory, expletive, un peu fort, over, too, over and above, overmuch, too much, too far, without measure, beyond measure, out of measure, with a to spare, over head and ears, up to one's eyes, up to one's ears, extra, beyond the mark, acervatim, it never rains but it pours, fortuna multis dat nimium nulli satis, Degree of Subservience.