unnecessarily
48
3.7
- adverb
- /ʌnˈnɛsəˌsɛrɪli/
:
innecesariamente
- Then don't make things so unnecessarily complicated again.
- unnecessarily restrictive
- unnecessarily complicated
- unnecessarily restrict
It may have unnecessarily high influence on, on, on the outputs.
- It may have unnecessarily high influence on, on, on the outputs.
- Do not change the subject unnecessarily, nor jump from one subject to another.
- And I've posed it in this conversation in an unnecessarily extreme way.
- And that just prolongs the whole experience unnecessarily, all right?
- But I do think sex complicates things unnecessarily.
- And I saw my dad suffering unnecessarily.
- So there's a lot of things the US did that were very unnecessarily provocative.
- You're going to make that man unnecessarily arrogant and confrontational for no reason.
- We were so pure And so this is the way people should eat that we unnecessarily restricted the market too narrowly.
- And so I am very cognizant of the fact that it was unnecessarily provocative how it was written.
- It's just has even more formalness and notation weighing it down unnecessarily.
- Don't get unnecessarily bogged down in ones that that aren't worth going in for.
- It's remarkable how many patients who have flu or symptoms related to flu get an antibiotic unnecessarily.
Examples
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However, let me speak frankly so that no one's time is unnecessarily wasted.
Academic text (2017) -
There was no sense in worrying you unnecessarily until I knew for certain.
Fiction book (1996) -
Do not change the subject unnecessarily, nor jump from one subject to another.
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And this has got a lot of people up in arms entirely unnecessarily I would say.
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Accidents are more likely to happen when people move about unnecessarily.
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Mr. Marshall, I find your tone unnecessarily hostile.
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Under their influence, the national political dialogue has become simple, shallow, and unnecessarily divisive.
Academic text (2008) -
Such practices, he maintains, ensure that anything done by government will be unnecessarily costly and inefficient.
Academic text (1994) -
The president will not condone anything that antagonizes the Americans unnecessarily.
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He explained the rules clearly so that no time was wasted unnecessarily during the game.
Synonyms
34
3.9
Without a good reason
21
6.9
More than is reasonable or necessary
11
4.1
In a way that is unfair or much too extreme
5
7.9
In a way that has no good reason and is unnecessary
4
4.3
In a way that has no purpose or use
2
7.0
In a way that has no good reason
1
8.1
Too much in a way that adds nothing useful
1
8.2
Without a good reason or any right to do it
In a way that has no good reason
In a way someone gets praise or reward they do not earn
Antonyms
How Unnecessary
Surface Forms
Morphology
unnecessarily = unnecessary (transparent) = un + necessary + ly
Formed by adding the productive adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'unnecessary', yielding a predictable adverbial meaning.
Etymology
Unnecessarily is made from the part un- meaning 'not', as in unhappy or undo, and necessary meaning 'needed', so it literally means 'not needed' and is used for something done without good reason.