• adj.
    ⦿more than is needed, desired, or required
    lexical concept
  • delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words
  • extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts
  • found some extra change lying on the dresser
  • it was supererogatory of her to gloat
  • skills made redundant by technological advance
  • sleeping in the spare room
  • supernumerary ornamentation
  • surplus cheese distributed to the needy
  • trying to lose excess weight
  • yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechadjective satellite
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:excess
  2. enl:extra
  3. enl:redundant
  4. enl:spare
  5. enl:supererogatory
  6. enl:superfluous
  7. enl:supernumerary
  8. enl:surplus
wn:interlingual indexili:i8668

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • excesssupererogatorysuperfluoussupernumerarysurplus
  • excessextraredundantsparesupererogatorysuperfluoussupernumerarysurplus