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Synonyms for surplus
ˈsɜr plʌs, -pləssur·plus
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Wiktionary
English Synonyms and Antonyms
surplus
Excess is more than enough of anything, and, since this in very many cases indicates a lack either of judgment or of self-control, the word is used frequently in an unfavorable sense. Careless expenditure in excess of income is extravagance; we may have also extravagance of language, professions, etc. As extravagance is excess in outlay, exorbitance is excess in demands, and especially in pecuniary demands upon others. Overplus and superabundance denote in the main a satisfactory, and superfluity an undesirable, excess; lavishness and profusion, a generous, bountiful, or amiable excess; as, a profusion of fair hair; lavishness of hospitality. Surplus is neutral, having none of the unfavorable meaning that often attaches to excess; a surplus is that which remains over after all demands are met. Redundance or redundancy refers chiefly to literary style, denoting an excess of words or matter. Excess in the moral sense is expressed by dissipation, prodigality, intemperance, etc.
Synonyms:
dissipation, excess, exorbitance, extravagance, intemperance, lavishness, overplus, prodigality, profusion, redundance, redundancy, superabundance, superfluity, waste, wastefulnessAntonyms:
dearth, defect, deficiency, destitution, economy, failure, frugality, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, need, poverty, scantiness, shortcoming, want
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
surplus
Synonyms:
redundancy, remainder, rest, overplus, residue, excess, balanceAntonyms:
deficiency, deficit, shortcoming
Princeton's WordNet
excess, surplus, surplusage, nimietyadjective
a quantity much larger than is needed
Synonyms:
surplusage, overabundance, inordinateness, excessiveness, surfeit, nimiety, overindulgence, excessAntonyms:
necessaryexcess, 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:
superfluous, senseless, unembellished, supererogatory, scanty, spare, otiose, wasted, pleonastic, unornamented, extra, free, plain, redundant, supernumerary, excess, purposeless, additional, tautological, special, tautologic, trim, bare(a), bare, pointlessAntonyms:
necessary
Dictionary of English Synonymes
surplusnoun
Synonyms:
overplus, residue, excess, surplusage
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
surplusnoun
Synonyms:
surplusage, excess, overplus, residue, remainder
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "surplus":
excess, surpluses, supernumerary, glut, thousand-megawatt, overage, oversupply, remaining, redundant, overages, overproduction, remainder, residual
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#42 | free | |
#273 | special | |
#585 | additional | |
#1378 | extra | |
#1547 | rest | |
#1963 | balance | |
#1980 | waste | |
#3226 | plain | |
#3546 | remaining | |
#4133 | excess | |
#5998 | trim | |
#6173 | spare | |
#6959 | bare | |
#7783 | surplus | |
#9174 | remainder | |
#10431 | residual | |
#12423 | redundant | |
#12442 | wasted | |
#13084 | residue | |
#16133 | redundancy | |
#18270 | pointless | |
#25972 | dissipation | |
#35057 | senseless | |
#35699 | superfluous | |
#36306 | glut | |
#39250 | surpluses | |
#56214 | profusion | |
#59392 | extravagance | |
#67164 | scanty | |
#78032 | overproduction | |
#84997 | overage | |
#93481 | oversupply | |
#112127 | intemperance | |
#118122 | supernumerary | |
#121363 | overabundance | |
#121700 | surfeit | |
#148311 | purposeless | |
#156902 | tautological | |
#172099 | overages | |
#208689 | overindulgence | |
#217114 | superfluity | |
#243467 | wastefulness | |
#260290 | superabundance | |
#272458 | surplusage | |
#283617 | excessiveness | |
#284758 | prodigality | |
#316834 | lavishness |
How to use surplus in a sentence?
Price-led cutbacks have virtually stopped, suggesting a growing surplus of copper, unless demand growth accelerates or price-led cutbacks commence, over the past six months we have reduced our cash costs by 50 cents a pound or nearly 20 percent, by focusing on cost control and operational efficiency.
If you look at the evidence, at the end of Bill Clinton's two terms, we had the longest peacetime expansion in American history with 22 million new jobs, a balanced budget and a surplus that would have paid off our national debt if it had not been rudely interrupted by the next administration.
I think most people that come here would say we have better roads, infrastructure, services, our K-12 schools perform higher, we have the number one rated public university system in the country. And we do all that with no state income tax and in fact have the lowest per capita tax burden in the country. And we have over $15 billion in surplus revenue.
The surplus of the heart overflows from a smile.
The market was led up by a significant draw in crude oil as the refining industry continues to turn the crude oil surplus into refined products.
Translations for surplus
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- излишъкBulgarian
- superàvitCatalan, Valencian
- nadbytek, přebytekCzech
- ÜberschussGerman
- πλεόνασμαGreek
- excedente, sobra, superávit, sobranteSpanish
- ylimääräinen, ylijäämäFinnish
- surplus, excédentaireFrench
- עודףHebrew
- 余りJapanese
- overschotDutch
- excedente, superavit, excessoPortuguese
- избыток, профицит, излишекRussian
- višakSerbo-Croatian
- överskottSwedish
- số dưVietnamese
- 剩餘Chinese
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