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Synonyms for superfluous
sʊˈpɜr flu əssu·per·flu·ous
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Wiktionary
superfluousadjective
Synonyms:
extravagant, surplus, supernumerary, extraneous, pleonastic, unnecessary, extra, excessivesuperfluousadjective
in excess of what is required or sufficient
With a full rain suit, carrying an umbrella may be superfluous.
Synonyms:
extravagant, extra, surplus, extraneous, unnecessary, excessive, supernumerary, pleonastic
English Synonyms and Antonyms
superfluous
Synonyms:
accidental, casual, external, extrinsic, fortuitous, incidental, outward, subsidiary, superadded, superficial, superimposed, supplemental, transient, unconnectedAntonyms:
congenital, essential, immanent, inborn, inbred, indispensable, indwelling, infixed, ingrained, inherent, inhering, innate, inseparable, internal, intrinsic, inwrought, native, natural, subjective
Princeton's WordNet
otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wastedadjective
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"
Synonyms:
spare, gaunt, work-shy, supernumerary, diminished, unpointed, lazy, slothful, emaciated, pinched, surplus, cadaverous, faineant, ineffectual, futile, mindless, witless, supererogatory, excess, redundant, nitwitted, wasted, insensible, haggard, senseless, purposeless, unavailing, reasonless, skeletal, pointless, atrophied, soft-witted, indolent, otiose, extra, bony, squanderedexcess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplusadjective
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:
senseless, surplus, unembellished, supererogatory, scanty, spare, otiose, wasted, pleonastic, unornamented, extra, free, plain, redundant, supernumerary, excess, purposeless, additional, tautological, special, tautologic, trim, bare(a), bare, pointless
Dictionary of English Synonymes
superfluousadjective
Synonyms:
excessive, superabundant, redundant, exuberant, unnecessary, needless, useless, expletive, more than enough
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
superfluousadjective
Synonyms:
superabundant, redundant, excessive, supernumerary
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "superfluous":
unnecessary, redundant, pointless, needless, supernumerary, useless, dispensable, extraneous
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#42 | free | |
#273 | special | |
#585 | additional | |
#1378 | extra | |
#1642 | external | |
#3226 | plain | |
#4133 | excess | |
#4833 | casual | |
#5998 | trim | |
#6173 | spare | |
#6959 | bare | |
#7783 | surplus | |
#7868 | subsidiary | |
#8094 | excessive | |
#8668 | supplemental | |
#9125 | lazy | |
#9462 | unnecessary | |
#10226 | useless | |
#11733 | accidental | |
#12423 | redundant | |
#12442 | wasted | |
#12548 | transient | |
#13621 | incidental | |
#16784 | outward | |
#17350 | needless | |
#17621 | skeletal | |
#17833 | diminished | |
#18270 | pointless | |
#18688 | mindless | |
#19703 | superficial | |
#26975 | futile | |
#31681 | haggard | |
#34015 | extravagant | |
#35057 | senseless | |
#35699 | superfluous | |
#36762 | extraneous | |
#37914 | superimposed | |
#40094 | bony | |
#44272 | extrinsic | |
#45025 | pinched | |
#49528 | gaunt | |
#52578 | unconnected | |
#54883 | squandered | |
#61666 | ineffectual | |
#67164 | scanty | |
#71442 | fortuitous | |
#80300 | indolent | |
#89296 | emaciated | |
#101823 | witless | |
#102330 | insensible | |
#109464 | unavailing | |
#113717 | dispensable | |
#114767 | slothful | |
#118122 | supernumerary | |
#148311 | purposeless | |
#149128 | atrophied | |
#156902 | tautological | |
#194565 | cadaverous |
How to use superfluous in a sentence?
It's my sense that some nations view freedom of the seas as up for grabs, as something that can be taken down and redefined by domestic law or by reinterpreting international law, some nations continue to impose superfluous warnings and restrictions on freedom of the seas in their exclusive economic zones and claim territorial water rights that are inconsistent with (the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea). This trend is particularly egregious in contested waters.
Human subtelty will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.
I am making a last attempt at writing a real letter -- at least from here -- although that qualification, I believe, is utterly superfluous. I do not think that I was fated at any time to write to anyone from anywhere.
Translations for superfluous
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- غير Arabic
- superfluCatalan, Valencian
- zbytečný, nadbytečnýCzech
- overflødigDanish
- überflüssigGerman
- περιττόςGreek
- superfluoSpanish
- ylenpalttinen, liiallinen, ylitsevuotavainen, tarpeetonFinnish
- superfluFrench
- iomarcachIrish
- superfluoGalician
- feleslegesHungarian
- ավելորդArmenian
- superfluoItalian
- 冗長Japanese
- supervacāneus, superforāneus, supervacuus, superfluusLatin
- overflødigNorwegian
- overtollig, overvloedig, overdadigDutch
- overflødigNorwegian Nynorsk
- nadmierny, zbyteczny, niepotrzebnyPolish
- supérfluoPortuguese
- superfluă, superfluu, de prisosRomanian
- лишний, излишнийRussian
- suvišan, сувишанSerbo-Croatian
- överflödigSwedish
- 多余Chinese
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