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unnecessaries

unnecessaries noun: unnecessary or inessential things.

Noun

unnecessaries pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) unnecessary or inessential things
    • […] for they had a mayor there, among other unnecessaries […]1876, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, page 51

Origin of unnecessaries

From unnecessary + -s.

Questions about unnecessaries

What does unnecessaries mean?
Unnecessaries means unnecessary or inessential things.
What part of speech is unnecessaries?
Unnecessaries is a noun.

Words near unnecessaries in the dictionary

  1. unneatened
  2. unneatly
  3. unneatness
  4. unnebulous
  5. unneccessary
  6. unnecessaries
  7. unnecessarily
  8. unnecessariness
  9. unnecessary
  10. unnecessitate
  11. unnecessitated

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