Difference between Unnecessary and Pointless

UNNECESSARY vs POINTLESS: NOUN

Not necessary; needless; not required by the circumstances of the case; useless: as, unnecessary labor or care; unnecessary rigor.

Unnecessarily, Uncalled for, Reserve, Surplus, Supernumerary, Spare, Supererogatory, Excess, Extra, Redundant, Inessential, Gratuitous, Superfluous, Unneeded, Needless

Nonsensical, Fruitless, Silly, Irrelevant, Futile, Useless, Unpointed, Blunt, Wasted, Senseless, Worthless, Otiose, Purposeless, Superfluous, Meaningless

Unnecessarily, Uncalled for, Reserve, Surplus, Supernumerary, Spare, Supererogatory, Excess, Extra, Redundant, Inessential, Gratuitous, Superfluous, Unneeded, Needless

Nonsensical, Fruitless, Silly, Irrelevant, Futile, Useless, Unpointed, Blunt, Wasted, Senseless, Worthless, Otiose, Purposeless, Superfluous, Meaningless

Lincoln undoubtedly hoped thus to avoid unnecessary friction.
This assessment, however, should not introduce unnecessary delay.
His memory of the subject made it unnecessary.
Term limits are unnecessary Term limits are completely unnecessary in the current political environment.
This would reduce unnecessary duplication, prevent wasting the time of additional participants and prevent exposing additional participants to unnecessary burden.
Accept No Unnecessary Risk: Unnecessary risk is that which carries no commensurate return in terms of benefits or opportunities.
This feature prevents an unnecessary credit check with the OCS and unnecessary monitoring of the call when the outcome is already determined.
The court should not require a party to respond to duplicative and unnecessary discovery requests because that would encourage unnecessary litigation.
Hardening involves implementing applicationlevel security approaches, removing unnecessary software, disabling unnecessary services, consulting guidelines and policies that are specific to your applic
This includes nervous or unnecessary hand motions, unnecessary tapping of feet or hands, etc.

One can hardly imagine a more pointless quarrel.
Putting it in the legal agreement is pointless.
Ion is the recording device, its pretty pointless.
Why Do We Continue to Embrace Pointless Stereotypes?
This fixation on a word is completely pointless.
This is counterproductive and in my opinion, pointless.
Depart all pointless valuables in your own home.
It was a pointless thing to say, it's pointless to go batshit about it.
Physical activity and obesity editorial: is exercise pointless or was it a pointless exercise?
But doing a new stereo mix for that record is pointless, pointless!