unnecessarily

1. 1.

   in an unnecessary manner

   “they were unnecessarily rude”

   Antonymsnecessarily
2. 2.

   without any necessity

   “this marathon would exhaust him unnecessarily”

Questions about unnecessarily

What does unnecessarily mean?

unnecessarily means "in an unnecessary manner". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in unnecessarily?

unnecessarily has 6 syllables: un-nec-es-sar-i-ly. The stress falls on "nec". In IPA it is /ənˈnɛsəˌsɛɹəli/.

What is the opposite of unnecessarily?

The recorded antonyms are necessarily.

Is unnecessarily a common word?

unnecessarily is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.