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need-not

need-not noun: something that is not needed or is excessive.

Noun

need-not (plural need-nots)

  1. (obsolete) Something that is not needed or is excessive.
    • Such abundance must be laid out on superfluous recreations, buildings, ornaments, furniture, equipage, attendants, entertainments, visitations, braveries, and a world of need-nots […]1673, Baxter's Practical Works, Vol. I
    • They implanted desires for need-nots and luxuries, and unscrupulously inflamed them.2013, Alvin Jackson, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History

Forms of need-not

pluralneed-nots

Questions about need-not

What does need-not mean?
Need-not means something that is not needed or is excessive.
What part of speech is need-not?
Need-not is a noun.
What is the plural of need-not?
The plural of need-not is need-nots.

Words near need-not in the dictionary

  1. need'st
  2. need-based
  3. need-blind
  4. need-fire
  5. need-fires
  6. need-not
  7. need-nots
  8. need-to-know
  9. need-to-knows
  10. needa
  11. needable

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