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superfluous Adjective

— If something is superfluous, it is more (or has more) than what is needed. Since you are walking along a sheltered walkway, having an umbrella with you would be superfluous.

superfluous

— adjective (= otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, wasted) serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being otiose lines in a play advice is wasted words a pointless remark a life essentially purposeless senseless violence — adjective (= excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, supernumerary, surplus) 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

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redundant surplus unnecessary excessive needless extra excess spare too much supernumerary pleonastic in excess extravagant useless unwanted supererogatory superabundant pointless dispensable wasted senseless purposeless otiose extraneous wordy waste very much very vain useless workers unrequired unneeded uncalled for too many tautologous tautological tautologic superfluity residue repetitious repeated remains remaining plentiful overplus overmuch overflowing overemphasized overabundant over

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States Quantity Enough

Extra

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extra (adj) spare superfluous

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Simple sentences

Don't bother me with superfluous details.

There was always too much superfluous writing in his essays.

Jim made a superfluous remark.

Whenever a new law is not necessary, it is not merely superfluous but harmful.

The quotation marks are superfluous.

They think it's superfluous.

I'm superfluous here.

Movie subtitles

O, my dear Gertrude, this, like to a murdering-piece, in many places gives me superfluous death.

As a believer in Europe, I haven't given up the hope of seeing us French give up the superfluous to come together so that, having united, we might all get the essential.

Wouldn't that be superfluous, considering that he's dead?

After all, if he insists on answering his own questions, the presence of the witness would seem superfluous.

I do not think the dignity of this court will suffer if we remove a few superfluous outer garments.

The little piece of sticking plaster was superfluous too.

The events and characters in this movie are so hugely believable, that it would be superfluous to vouch for their authenticity.

I intend to kill off all these superfluous emotions in me.

You have no sense of the superfluous, darling.

Then it's superfluous to go with science.

Except for superfluous detail, these shots tell us very little.

That is superfluous, Your Honor.

Up here, formality's a little superfluous.

Superfluous.

In that case, the presence here of the Spanish envoy is superfluous.

We may be superfluous.

O, my dear Gertrude, this, like to a murdering-piece, in many places gives me superfluous death. - Ahem. - How now?

Happily your generosity has made this council meeting quite superfluous.

You consider me superfluous.

You think I'm superfluous? Prove it!

Then the question is superfluous.

Wouldn't that be superfluous, considering. that he's dead?

I know I am a superfluous man.

But even a superfluous man wants to go on being superfluous.

Did you see? A heritage that removing organs from unnecessary wealthy females superfluous.

Since no great naval power menaces the free world today, the navy's overwhelming preponderance of surface ships seems superfluous.

That'd be superfluous, unnecessary, and a waste of time.

He felt embarrassed and superfluous.

Largely superfluous, but keep it on for a couple of days - to remind you to take it easy.

Which had superfluous kings for messengers Not many moons gone by?

A traditional analysis seems superfluous and would take too long.

I know a freezer seems superfluous out here, but we do need it to keep snow samples in until they're analysed.

Superfluous cinema.

I suppose you realise that, once I give the Shadow the Key to Time, you and your colleagues will be superfluous, huh?

I suppose you realise that, once I give the Shadow the Key to Time, that you and your colleagues will be superfluous, hmm?

The Tardis has made it superfluous.

News and current affairs

Nuclear weapons would thus become superfluous.

It also closed half of its excessive number of hospitals and sacked superfluous teachers, of which there was one for every six children before the crisis.

All state visits are overloaded with lofty, superfluous rhetoric.

All of these were great and noble qualities, and all of them now seem utterly superfluous to most Poles.

Dozens of superfluous inspection agencies have been abolished, significantly reducing the regulatory burden.

In my opinion, it is superfluous to ask the Palestinians to recognize the nationhood of a people with thousands of years of history and a state that maintains diplomatic relations with 150 countries around the world.

The pursuit of market confidence would be superfluous.

Companies reduce their superfluous employees' annual bonuses, but do not get rid of them.

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