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/sˌuːpənjˈuːməɹəɹi/
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NOUN
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a person serving no apparent function
reducing staff is difficult because our employees include no supernumeraries - a minor actor in crowd scenes
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
How To Use supernumerary In A Sentence
- Complete doubling of the uterine tubes may occur in association with supernumerary ovaries.
- For as for that part which seemeth supernumerary, which is prophecy, it is but divine history, which hath that prerogative over human, as the narration may be before the fact as well as after. The Advancement of Learning
- The upper lateral incisors may be duplicated and the development of four molars or two supernumerary premolars may also occur.
- It's a disorder in which supernumerary bones form.
- The imago can become multiradiate at the time of metamorphosis, or it can be 5-rayed at metamorphosis and add the supernumerary rays during post larval growth stages.
- supernumerary ornamentation
- Larkin and Jones 6.212 mention the removal of a meningocele and a supernumerary limb from an infant of four months. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
- Doctors call the extra appendages "supernumerary" body parts and these can be found on some famous people in history. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
- If I were to follow my poor Joliet through all his transmigrations and metempsychoses, as I have learned them by his hints, allusions and confessions, I should show him by turns working a rope ferry, where the stupid and indolent cattle, whose business it is to draw men, were drawn by him; then letter-carrier; supernumerary and call-boy in a village theatre; road-mender on a vicinal route; then a beadle, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873
- Which was hardly surprising: every line of sight ran up against gilded statuary or supernumerary columns. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
