Borges adds: “He remarked that for a man so equipped, actual travel was superfluous.”
The device of reconstructing internal dialogues sometimes feels a bit forced or superfluous.
Going broke working off the books, Nabil listened to a friend who told him that in Afghanistan, papers were superfluous.
The present is superfluous: everything has already been ordained.
Just two weeks ago, the experts were saying the Seoul summit would be superfluous as there was nothing left to decide.
Of the significance of the life of this great man, it would be superfluous to speak.
Comments on these letters would be superfluous, as they speak forcibly for themselves.
That is the civilized fashion; and is superfluous among savages.
It was just as well—any further word of mine would have been superfluous.
She was a tall, large woman, well-knit, with no superfluous flesh.
unnecessary; uncalled-for; wasteful
Latin super- + fluere 'to flow'
