Usually means: Not needed, excessive, or superfluous.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word unnecessary:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. unnecessary: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. unnecessary, unnecessary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. unnecessary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. unnecessary: Collins English Dictionary
  5. unnecessary: Vocabulary.com
  6. Unnecessary, unnecessary: Wordnik
  7. unnecessary: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. unnecessary: Wiktionary
  9. unnecessary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. unnecessary: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. unnecessary: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. unnecessary: Dictionary.com
  13. unnecessary: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. unnecessary: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Unnecessary: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. unnecessary: Rhymezone
  17. unnecessary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. unnecessary: Free Dictionary
  19. unnecessary: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. unnecessary: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. unnecessary: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. unnecessary: Legal dictionary
  2. unnecessary: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unnecessary: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unnecessary: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. unnecessary: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. unnecessary: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Not needed or necessary.
adjective:  Done in addition to requirements; unrequired.

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