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unnecessary

adjectifcourant dans les dialogues

  • Royaume-Uni//ʌnˈnɛs.ə.s(ə)ɹɪ//
  • Royaume-Uni//ʌnˈnɛs.əˌsɛɹ.ɪ//
  • Royaume-Uni//ʌnˈnɛs.ə.ɹɪ//
  • États-Unis//ʌnˈnɛs.əˌsɛɹ.i//

Not needed or necessary.

adjectif

  1. 1

    Not needed or necessary.

    The automatic child-frightener made clowns unnecessary.

    Every possible economy was carefully investigated and unnecessary expense, however small, eliminated. The company had no money to spare on "frills."

    Robins, of Torquay, had denied a single charge of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal. She claimed the microwave was accidentally turned on by one of the cats after the kitten got inside. But Knutton said the kitten was too small to even get onto the work surface.

    Yet some of the statin side effects mentioned in the study have not been proved in the scientific literature or are exaggerated and could cause unnecessary worry, he said.

  2. 2

    Done in addition to requirements; unrequired.

Étymologie

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English necessary English unnecessary From un- + necessary.

Formes

comparatif
more unnecessary
superlatif
most unnecessary
Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

Rang parmi les mots du corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — des sous-titres de films et de séries, donc de la langue parlée et non écrite (CC BY-SA 3.0).