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US
/ˈsupɝfɫˌwəs/
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[ UK /suːpˈɜːfluːəs/ ]
[ UK /suːpˈɜːfluːəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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more than is needed, desired, or required
extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts
yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant
found some extra change lying on the dresser
supernumerary ornamentation
sleeping in the spare room
trying to lose excess weight
surplus cheese distributed to the needy
skills made redundant by technological advance
delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words
it was supererogatory of her to gloat -
serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
a life essentially purposeless
otiose lines in a play
advice is wasted words
a pointless remark
senseless violence
How To Use superfluous In A Sentence
- - not essential; supplemental; superfluous v. - attract and hold to surface (minute particles of mixture or molecules of gas or liquid). adsorbate, aduncous, aduncate adj. - hook-shaped; crooked. aduncity, adust adj. - (sun) burnt or scorched; dried up by heat; gloomy, sad. Xml's Blinklist.com
- - not essential; supplemental; superfluous v. - attract and hold to surface (minute particles of mixture or molecules of gas or liquid). adsorbate, aduncous, aduncate adj. - hook-shaped; crooked. aduncity, adust adj. - (sun) burnt or scorched; dried up by heat; gloomy, sad. Xml's Blinklist.com
- How do we make legitimate and defensible distinctions between medically necessary and superfluous therapy?
- Everything seems to fit together perfectly, and one doesn't catch any extra or superfluous notes.
- It's also fair to say that I would nonetheless like a companion to share it with, and that in my more unquiet moments I get annoyed with myself for what seems like a superfluous desire; after all, I don't need a partner to make me happy.
- Export of superfluous man-power from the poorer inland farms was an established tradition by the eighteenth century.
- It can use this claim to block further legislation, claiming it is superfluous.
- A number of obsolete and superfluous names have been assigned to Franklin andradite, among them are the polyadelphite of Thomson, melanite of Seybert and Seymour, and also colophonite, topazolite, and titanmelanite, all of obscure origin locally.
- I quote from Mr Edmund Gosse in the Sunday Times of May 30th, 1920: "Unless something is done to stem this flood of poetastry the art of verse will become not merely superfluous, but ridiculous. The Second-Order Mind
- With this clue we recognise that the big pink splodge that occupies the rest of the paper must be Venus - Twombly's inept attempt to paint a recumbent nude; if, however, we read the breasts as heads, the splodge could equally well be interpreted as the lovers sexually engaged, the detached penis now a superfluous synecdochism. Evening Standard - Home