supernumerary English

Meaning supernumerary meaning

What does supernumerary mean?

supernumerary

— noun a minor actor in crowd scenes

— noun a person serving no apparent function reducing staff is difficult because our employees include no supernumeraries

— adjective (= excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, 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

Synonyms supernumerary synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as supernumerary?

supernumerary English » English

extra

superfluous

redundant

surplus

spear carrier

spare

supererogatory

excess

additional

walkon

walk-on

useless workers

useless

unsolicited

unneeded

unnecessary

uncalled-for

unasked

super

spear-carrier

otiose

needless

inessential

gratuitous

figurante

figurant

exceeding

dispensable

dead