Needless Co [NDLSC]

u'<font size="14" color="#bfffffff"></font><font size="24" color="#ffffe400"><loc><a href="https://www.oed.com/dictionary/needless_adv?tab=meaning_and_use&tl=true#35051877">needless</a></loc><br><br></font><font size="10" color="#bfffffff"><b>British English</b><br></font><font size="12" color="#ffb2b2b2">/\u02c8ni\u02d0d.l\u0259s/<br><br></font><font size="10" color="#bfffffff"><b>U.S. English</b><br></font><font size="12" color="#ffb2b2b2">/\u02c8nid.l\u0259s/<br><br>---<br><br></font><font size="18" color="#bfffffff"><b>Meaning &amp; Use<br><br></font><font size="12" color="#ffb2b2b2">[ADJECTIVE]</b><br></font><font size="14" color="#bfffffff">Not needed or wanted, unnecessary, uncalled for; useless, avoidable. Now frequently in parenthetic phrase <b>needless to say</b>: as it is unnecessary to say; as will already have been deduced. </font><font size="12" color="#ffb2b2b2">[c1300\u2013]<br><br>---<br><br></font><font size="18" color="#bfffffff"><b>Cite<br><br></font><font size="14" color="#bfffffff"><i>Chicago</b></i><br></font><font size="12" color="#bfffffff">Oxford English Dictionary, s.v. \u201cneedless (adj.), sense 1,\u201d September 2024, https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/3867272174.<br><br></font><font size="14" color="#bfffffff"><b><i>MLA9</b></i><br></font><font size="12" color="#bfffffff">\u201cNeedless, Adj., Sense 1.\u201d Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford UP, September 2024, https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/3867272174.<br><br>---<br><br></font><font size="12" color="#ffb2b2b2"><i>Revised 2003</i></font><font size="10" color="#ffb2b2b2"> / </font><font size="12" color="#ffb2b2b2">\xa9 Oxford University Press</font>'