Needless
Needless adjective - Not needed by the circumstances or to accomplish an end.
Too many and needless are semantically related In some cases you can use "Too many" instead an adjective "Needless".
Nearby Words: need, needlessly
Too many
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- exorbitant and needless
- exorbitant and too many
- extravagant and needless
- extravagant and too many
- excess and needless
- excess and too many
- surplus and needless
- surplus and too many
- overmuch and needless
- overmuch and too many
- extreme and needless
- extreme and too many
- spare and needless
- spare and too many
Both terms in one sentence
- The final arc of Eyeshield 21 (the World Youth Cup) was just one too many for a lot of the fans because the Devil Bats had already won the big game they'd be working towards from the start of the series and this just felt like a needless Post-Script Season.
Source: Ending Fatigue -
But it has nothing on the Futura/Orbit printing of Too Many Magicians: a black cover featuring a completely naked woman blasting lightning from her hand◊, who does not, needless to say, appear anywhere in the story.
Source: Contemptible Cover - Shout-Out: Too many to list, given that the entire book is dedicated to going off on various and random tangents of pop culture, but one notable one is that Kam Fong has the same name as an actor on the original Hawaii Five-O (needless to say, it's lampshaded).
Source: Series / jPod
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