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superfluous
/ suːˈpɜːflʊəs /
adjective
- exceeding what is sufficient or required
- not necessary or relevant; uncalled-for
- obsolete.extravagant in expenditure or oversupplied with possessions
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Derived Forms
- suˈperfluousness, noun
- suˈperfluously, adverb
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Other Words From
- su·perflu·ous·ly adverb
- su·perflu·ous·ness noun
- unsu·perflu·ous adjective
- unsu·perflu·ous·ly adverb
- unsu·perflu·ous·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of superfluous1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of superfluous1
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Example Sentences
For these picks, we weeded out the superfluous choices and pared down the selections to include options that we would wear all day, every day.
So if you don’t like superfluous side stories and characters, there’s less to love here.
“But sometimes it is necessary to protect the superfluous in order to preserve the necessary,” he wrote.
Mostly you don’t need to align, most folks taking part are superfluous and as accidental team-building exercises they are incredibly expensive in terms of human-hours.
In a speech from the Senate floor, he drew attention to taxpayer-funded research that he presented as unnecessary and superfluous.
In her 2009 novel, “Best Friends Forever,” for instance, Weiner powerfully described how her heroine, Addie Downs, gradually inched out of her cocoon of loneliness and superfluous weight.
The draft genome for another member of the Rafflesiaceae family that they recently published in Current Biology is full of surprises, showing how far parasites can go in shedding superfluous genes and acquiring useful new ones from their hosts.
Republicans said that the funding already allocated through last year’s relief bills was sufficient, and that sending more money to state and local governments was superfluous.
Which raises the question: If the idea of the gloriously superfluous disappears from nature, how does it take root in the mind?
(If Nel is to answer his own questions, the presence of the witness would seem superfluous).
Mysteriously, however, no one can describe how it works better—it appears to have redundant and even superfluous parts.
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.
His fey appearance and mannerisms might have made such a question superfluous under normal circumstances.
It really renders most other comment superfluous, in a way I can hardly recall any other satire doing.
The present is superfluous: everything has already been ordained.
But often Christie found the scone superfluous, and just ate the cream by the spoonful instead.
But now, they can express themselves—making bin Laden superfluous.
Just two weeks ago, the experts were saying the Seoul summit would be superfluous as there was nothing left to decide.
Cousin George's position is such a happy one, that conversation is to him a thing superfluous.
It is perhaps somewhat superfluous to say that the Russian Government at once adopted these balloons for war purposes.
If all the world did not wag his way, so much the worse for cold-blooded mercenary superfluous beings.
Having thus divined the origin of the hero, I feel that any further indication of his character would be almost superfluous.
Though the memorandum is quite superfluous, it will often put me in mind of the creator.
Soil of Homburg composed of Fuller's-earth, warranted to absorb superfluous grease from cloth substances.
If a key is an octave higher than another, it is superfluous because it gives us a mere repetition of the same intervals .
The young woman saw before her a superfluous witness of the scene.
Next dry with clean blotting-paper to take off any superfluous water.
But if God is good, if he cherishes his creatures, if he knows their wants, it seems superfluous to pray to him.
But this merit some of our English bards seem to have despised, as utterly superfluous.
Thank you, said Satana, But while you are here, I really think my presence would be superfluous.
A superfluous prince of that family appears to have drifted to these regions, and makes our street aristocratic for us.
Meade left all his superfluous baggage behind, and moved in light marching order.
Speech seemed superfluous as we stood there, hand in hand, contemplating those gigantic, pale-green eggs.
It would be superfluous to insist here upon the great and constant utility of this branch of sociological speculation.
Upon which he took his jug out of his bag, and instantly broke it, as a superfluous movable.
He never uses a superfluous or a far-fetched word, never indulges in flowers, word-painting, or rhetorical trickery of any kind.
I want not superfluous wealth; for me the fortune inherited from my forefathers, is amply sufficient.
There is no vestige of pose, nothing superfluous; everywhere simplicity, compression, lucidity.
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