Less and Needed

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Less adjective - Having not so great importance or rank as another.

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Needed and less are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Needed" instead an adjective "Less".

Nearby Words: lessen, lessening

Needed adjective - Impossible to do without.

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Less and needed are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Less" instead an adjective "Needed".

Nearby Words: need, needs, needy, needful, needing

Lord Voldemort, amusingly enough, suffered from being more evil than needed and less evil than he could've been at the same time.

Source: Villain Ball
Knight Templar: To be fair, his Operation Outcome does do a lot of much-needed and less morally ambiguous intelligence work than Blackbriar or Treadstone (who can argue with gathering intel on North Korea's military?).

Source: Characters / The Bourne Series
So they needed to find ways to use less internal RAM and less disk space in storing information on a computer.

Source: Millennium Bug

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