unnecessary

[ʌnˈnesəseri]

Definition:
1. Not necessary.
2. Not needed; more than is needed.

Use 'unnecessary' in a sentence:

1. Please, Mary, this is all so unnecessary.
2. I felt that we were taking unnecessary risks.
3. Lozanov experimented with teaching by direct suggestion during sleep, hypnosis and trance states, but found such procedures unnecessary.
4. We suspect that spending would come down through elimination of a lot of unnecessary or even dangerous tests and treatments.
5. While this makes a lot of sense, it results in many lion deaths that otherwise would have been unnecessary.
6. But overall, we suspect that spending would come down through elimination of a lot of unnecessary or even dangerous tests and treatments.
7. How can employers use social media information to their advantage while avoiding unnecessary risks?
8. This will prevent unnecessary accidents and loss of life.
9. A union would infuse unnecessary conflict into the company's employee relations.
10. The cooling wind swept through out bedroom windows, making air conditioning unnecessary.
11. The rule is intended to save the company the money it might otherwise spend on medically unnecessary procedures.
12. The press, making a mountain out of a molehill, precipitated an unnecessary economic crisis.
13. He tries to draw unnecessary attention to himself.
14. One of the biggest myths in the last year is that social media experts make PR obsolete and unnecessary.
15. I'm expected to attend too many meetings and I seem to be spending a lot of my time doing unnecessary paperwork.
16. You might want to find and prune an application's unnecessary files.
17. The pity is that it was all completely unnecessary.
18. It accused her of not respecting the past and it had some personal stuff that seemed unnecessary.
19. Use a good spam filter to remove the truly unnecessary mail.
20. All fast food chains should reduce unnecessary packaging, he added.
21. Cut off the unnecessary twigs and branches.
22. Many school have strict restrictions on students' clothes, which I think is unnecessary.
23. He found it unnecessary for us to stay behind.
24. Prune out any unnecessary details.
25. It's unnecessary to go into details.
26. In infrared imaging system, all false and unnecessary signal are called noise.
27. It prompted employees to overcharge for work and to complete unnecessary repairs on a companywide basis.
28. The fact that few in China appeared to heed the call for an egyptian-style revolt may have been taken as proof that harsh tactics work, not that they are unnecessary.
29. For pants without that crease (and many with it), pleats are unnecessary; for pants that need the pleat, they only need one.
30. As we are old friends, it is totally unnecessary to stand on ceremony.
31. He spoke fluently and without unnecessary hesitations.
32. The British press, making a mountain out of a molehill, precipitated an unnecessary economic crisis.
33. The TSA cannot continue diverting resources into underused PreCheck lanes while most of the traveling public suffers in unnecessary lines.
34. I'm expected to attend too many meetings and I seem to be spending a lot of my time doing unnecessary paper work.
35. The city council has been trying to prune unnecessary costs from its list.
36. If you factor in the projected rates of technological change, either your skills will become unnecessary, or your industry outdated.
37. They viewed his actions as unnecessary.
38. Teenage boys at this stage often begin to take unnecessary risks.
39. This can create unnecessary delays as you hold meetings trying to achieve consensus.
40. In a market where there appears to be a surplus, the common mistake is to tack on too many unnecessary requirements.
41. He accused Diana of making an unnecessary fuss.
42. All this fuss is totally unnecessary.
43. I think your writing would be improved if you pruned away some of those unnecessary adjectives.
44. That last comment was a little unnecessary, wasn't it?
45. We should trim off the unnecessary parts of our spending.
46. In November 2013, after an unnecessary round of additional consultation, health minister Jane Ellison said the government was minded to proceed after all.
47. You could have spared yourself an unnecessary trip by phoning in advance.
48. They will be concerned to cut back expenditure on unnecessary items.
49. There could be a serious loss of efficiency through unnecessary duplication of resources.
50. The barbaric slaughter of whales is unnecessary and inhuman.
51. The slaughter of whales is unnecessary and inhuman.
52. They were found guilty of causing unnecessary suffering to animals.
53. The accountant checked this unnecessary spending in good time.
54. I hate unnecessary waste.