superfluous
Meaning of superfluous
- In excess of what is required or sufficient.
With a full rain suit, carrying an umbrella may be superfluous.
Information about superfluous
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of superfluous
su-per-flu-ous
- It consists of 4 syllables and 11 chars.
- superfluous is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
superfluous synonyms
Meaning otiose:
Meaning excess:
excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, supernumerary, surplus
Meaning :
excessive, extraneous, extravagant, pleonastic, unnecessary
Translation of superfluous
- French: superflu, surabondant, inutile
- German: überflüssig, unnötig, überschüssig, überzählig
- Spanish: superfluo, demasiado, excesivo, inútil, innecesario
- Italian: extra, superfluo, inutile
- Portuguese: desnecessário
Words that rhyme with superfluous
conspicuous, imperspicuous, inconspicuous, innocuous, intertranspicuous, nocuous, nonpromiscuous, nonvacuous, pascuous, perspicuous, proficuous, promiscuous, semiconspicuous, semiperspicuous, transpicuous, unconspicuous, uninnocuous, unperspicuous, unpromiscuous, unvacuous, vacuous, arduous, assiduous, biduous, ceduous, deciduous, dividuous, fastiduous, indeciduous, individuous, nondeciduous, occiduous, predeciduous, residuous, superarduous, unarduous, unassiduous, viduous, ambiguous, contiguous, discontiguous, exiguous, incontiguous, irriguous, nonambiguous, noncontiguous, subcontiguous, unambiguous, uncontiguous, xiphuous