Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: superfluous
IPA transcription: [s'upɚflw,ʌs]
Pronunciations of superfluous
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus
    Meaning: 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: otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted
    Meaning: 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"
Usage examples
  • And hence they must become more and more superfluous.
  • It is, perhaps, not superfluous to support these assertions by examples:
  • She even conveyed to him the notion that he had made the others superfluous.
  • Says it is to call it by when I want it to come. I said it was superfluous, then.
  • Any questions or statements they spoke would be superfluous, so they didn't speak.
  • "I sent them away because they were superfluous encumbrances," hastily replied Miss Carlyle.
  • For there is nothing superfluous in the work of an angel, as there is nothing of the kind in the work of nature.
  • 'A crime! a crime!' Only now I see clearly the imbecility of my cowardice, now that I have decided to face this superfluous disgrace.
  • She offered me her valuable services for all sorts of superfluous things that I didn't want--if only I would spare her Julie for this ridiculous bazaar.
  • But men have so ordered their lives that it is utterly impossible for them to act in accordance with Christ's teaching, and Jesus Christ has become entirely superfluous to us.
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