unneedful
English
Etymology
un- + needful
Adjective
unneedful (comparative more unneedful, superlative most unneedful)
- Not needful.
- 1907, William Hope Hodgson, The Boats of the "Glen Carrig":
- At this, the men nearest unto the door came backwards in a surge, being put in sudden fear by reason of the Thing being so near; but the bo'sun held up a hand, bidding them, in a low voice, to make no unneedful noise.
- 1916, Bertrand W. Sinclair, Big Timber:
- Again the donkey began to puff and quiver, the line began to roll up on the drum, and the big yarder walked up the slope under its own power, a locomotive unneedful of rails, making its own right of way.
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