Word Meanings - NEEDLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Having no need. Weeping into the needless stream. Shak. 2. Not wanted; unnecessary; not requiste; as, needless labor; needless expenses. 3. Without sufficient cause; groundless; cuseless. "Needless jealousy." Shak. -- Need"less*ly,

Additional info about word: NEEDLESS

1. Having no need. Weeping into the needless stream. Shak. 2. Not wanted; unnecessary; not requiste; as, needless labor; needless expenses. 3. Without sufficient cause; groundless; cuseless. "Needless jealousy." Shak. -- Need"less*ly, adv. -- Need"less*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of NEEDLESS)

• Tautology
• Verbosity
• redundancy
• needless
• repetition
• pleonasm
• reiteration

Related words: (words related to NEEDLESS)

• NEEDLESS
  1. Having no need. Weeping into the needless stream. Shak. 2. Not wanted; unnecessary; not requiste; as, needless labor; needless expenses. 3. Without sufficient cause; groundless; cuseless. "Needless jealousy." Shak. -- Need"less*ly,
• REPETITIONAL; REPETITIONARY
  Of the nature of, or containing, repetition.
• PLEONASM
  Redundancy of language in speaking or writing; the use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; as, I saw it with my own eyes.
• VERBOSITY
  The quality or state of being verbose; the use of more words than are necessary; prolixity; wordiness; verbiage. The worst fault, by far, is the extreme diffuseness and verbosity of his style. Jeffrey.
• REPETITIONER
  One who repeats.
• REPETITION
  The act of repeating, singing, (more info) 1. The act of repeating; a doing or saying again; iteration. I need not be barren of accusations; he hath faults, with surplus to tire in repetition. Shak. 2. Recital from memory; rehearsal.
• TAUTOLOGY
  A repetition of the same meaning in different words; needless repetition of an idea in different words or phrases; a representation of anything as the cause, condition, or consequence of itself, as in the following lines: -- The dawn is overcast,
• REITERATION
  The act of reiterating; that which is reiterated.
• SELF-REPETITION
  Repetition of one's self or of one's acts; the saying or doing what one has already said or done.
• REDUNDANCE; REDUNDANCY
  Surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains. (more info) 1. The quality or state of being redundant; superfluity; superabundance; excess. 2. That which is redundant