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superfluous 音标拼音: [s'upɚflw ,ʌs] a. 多余的,过剩的 多余的,过剩的 superfluous adj 1: 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" [ synonym: { otiose}, { pointless}, { purposeless}, { senseless}, { superfluous}, { 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" [ synonym: { excess}, { extra}, { redundant}, { spare}, { supererogatory}, { superfluous}, { supernumerary}, { surplus}] 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. [ 1913 Webster] An authority which makes all further argument or illustration superfluous. -- E. Everett. [ 1913 Webster] { Superfluous interval} ( Mus.), an interval that exceeds a major or perfect interval by a semitone. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Unnecessary; useless; exuberant; excessive; redundant; needless. [ 1913 Webster] -- { Su* per" flu* ous* ly}, adv. -- { Su* per" flu* ous* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 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
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