Superfluous \Su*per"flu*ous\, a. [L. superfluus overflowing;
super over, above + fluere to flow. See Super-, and
Fluent.]
More than is wanted or is sufficient; rendered unnecessary by
superabundance; unnecessary; useless; excessive; as, a
superfluous price. --Shak.
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An authority which makes all further argument or
illustration superfluous. --E. Everett.
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Superfluous interval (Mus.), an interval that exceeds a
major or perfect interval by a semitone.
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Syn: Unnecessary; useless; exuberant; excessive; redundant;
needless.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
superfluous
adj 1: serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being;
"otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"
[syn: otiose, pointless, wasted]
2: more than is needed, desired, or required; "trying to lose
excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on the
dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought
redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological
advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary
ornamentation"; "it was supererogatory of her to gloat";
"delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words"; "extra ribs
as well as other supernumerary internal parts"; "surplus
cheese distributed to the needy" [syn: excess, extra,
redundant, spare, supererogatory, supernumerary, surplus]
WordNet (r) 2.0
73 Moby Thesaurus words for "superfluous":
accessory, accidental, additional, adscititious, adventitious,
aimless, appurtenant, ascititious, auxiliary, casual,
circumstantial, collateral, contingent, de trop, dispensable,
excess, excessive, expendable, expletive, extra, feckless,
fortuitous, gratuitous, impotent, in excess, incidental,
ineffective, ineffectual, inessential, left, leftover, meaningless,
needless, net, no go, nonessential, odd, of no use, outstanding,
over, pleonastic, pointless, prolix, purposeless, redundant,
remaining, remanent, secondary, spare, subsidiary, superabundant,
superadded, supererogatory, supernumerary, supervenient,
supplemental, supplementary, surplus, surviving, tautologic,
tautologous, to spare, unasked, unavailing, uncalled-for,
unconsumed, unessential, unnecessary, unneeded, unused, unwanted,
useless, verbose
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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