un-needed

as insuperfluous
as inuncalled-for
as inunessential
as inunnecessary
as ininessential
as insupererogatory
as inunneeded
as inunrequired
as inextra
as infutile

Synonyms for un-needed

adj extra, unnecessary

Antonyms for un-needed

Word Origin & History

Old English nied (West Saxon), ned (Mercian) "necessity, compulsion, duty; hardship, distress; errand, business," originally "violence, force," from Proto-Germanic *nauthis (cf. Old Saxon nod, Old Norse nauðr, Old Frisian ned, Middle Dutch, Dutch nood, Old High German not, German Not, Gothic nauþs "need"), probably cognate with Old Prussian nautin "need," and perhaps with Old Church Slavonic nazda, Russian nuzda, Polish nędza "misery, distress," from PIE *nau- "death, to be exhausted" (see narwhal).

The more common Old English word for "need, necessity, want" was ðearf, but they were connected via a notion of "trouble, pain," and the two formed a compound, niedðearf "need, necessity, compulsion, thing needed." Nied also might have been influenced by Old English neod "desire, longing," which often was spelled the same. Common in Old English compounds, e.g. niedfaru "compulsory journey," a euphemism for "death;" niedhæmed "rape," the second element being an Old English word meaning "sexual intercourse;" niedling "slave." Meaning "extreme poverty, destitution" is from c.1200.

Example Sentences for un-needed

But the more she played and sang the further was I from un-needed slumber.

Joe had housed the un-needed reaper in the shed and was examining the plow before he had been gone an hour.