When something is so unnecessary that it could easily be done away with, like a fifth wheel on a car or a fifth person on a double date, call it superfluous.
More than is wanted or is sufficient; rendered unnecessary by superabundance; unnecessary; useless; excessive;
Adjective S.
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
Adjective S.
serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being; "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"
a.
More than is wanted or is sufficient; rendered
unnecessary by superabundance; unnecessary; useless; excessive; as, a
superfluous price.
Superfluous
An authority which makes all further argument or illustration superfluous.
More than is wanted or is sufficient; rendered unnecessary by superabundance; unnecessary; useless; excessive;
Usage Examples
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.
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Other Usage ExamplesHuman subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.
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