superfluous : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: superfluous	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for superfluous
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
superfluous adj 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" Synonym(s): otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted 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" Synonym(s): excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Superfluous \Super"fluous\, a. [L. superfluus overflowing; super over, above + fluere to flow. See {Super-}, and {Fluent}.] More than is wanted or is sufficient; rendered unnecessary by superabundance; unnecessary; useless; excessive; as, a superfluous price. --Shak. An authority which makes all further argument or illustration superfluous. --E. Everett. {Superfluous interval} (Mus.), an interval that exceeds a major or perfect interval by a semitone. Syn: Unnecessary; useless; exuberant; excessive; redundant; needless. -- {Super"fluously}, adv. -- {Super"fluousness}, n.