unneedful

comparative more unneedful · superlative most unneedful

1. Not needful.

   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.

   1916, Bertrand W. Sinclair, Big Timber

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   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.

   1907, William Hope Hodgson, The Boats of the "Glen Carrig"