Needn't
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /niːdn̩t/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Needn't is a verb meaning (negative auxiliary, chiefly British, formal or literary) Need not.
Meaning
(negative auxiliary, chiefly British, formal or literary) Need not.
Example Sentences
I needn’t have washed the car: shortly after it started raining.
We needn’t go to sleep early because tomorrow morning school starts late.
Of course, since he's Judy's lover he had to say she's got nicer legs! It's true he needn't have been so assertive about it. That wasn't very tactful towards poor Li; Li is right when she says that Fred is an egoistic lout. A terrible lout.
She needn't argue with Renee and Marian (she is speaking to them again) about the Black Panthers. She needn't worry that Lydia seems to be taking too many and more frightening drugs. She needn't keep it from Adam that she is smoking pot with her friends; […]
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