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Definition
more than is needed, desired, or required- Eliminate superfluous words.
superfluous = more than is needed, desired, or required
- Everyone liked the idea. The arguments I prepared to support it were superfluous.
- Her husband was simply a superfluous and tiresome person.Tolstoy, Leo -- Anna Karenina
- One of the most infuriating habits of these people was their love of superfluous words, he thought.Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart
- I saw myself as a dead-weary pilgrim, dragging myself across the desert of the other world, laden with the many superfluous books I had written,Hermann Hesse -- Steppenwolf
- That request seemed superfluous when I wrote it.F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby
- religious sentiment is superfluous.Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World
- "...lovers to have ..." I relish that last phrase. Its awkwardness (the "to have" seems superfluous) gives it substance and heft.Susanna Kaysen -- Girl Interrupted
- He was in perfect condition, without an ounce of superfluous fleshJack London -- The Call of the Wild
- For this reason, many things had become superfluous which, although they could not be sold, the family did not wish to discard.Franz Kafka -- Metamorphosis
- How superfluous, how intrusive, he would be, if he were to force his way...Henrik Ibsen -- Hedda Gabler
- No mouths, no sex organs— all these were superfluous.Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain
- Give, me superfluous death.William Shakespeare -- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
- So don't waste time with superfluous questions.Ralph Ellison -- Invisible Man
- The entire manoeuvre proved superfluous; no one came except Lewicki, who looked in towards evening, both curious and anxious to find out how I was.Wladyslaw Szpilman -- The Pianist
- I saw no whipping going on, but a couple of big, old Vikings were roaring away, giving mostly superfluous orders and pushing people around.Katherine Applegate -- Everworld - Search For Senna
- I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs;William Shakespeare -- Measure for Measure
- Our basest beggars are in the poorest thing superfluous.William Shakespeare -- King Lear
- He contented himself with merely drinking his coffee and letting Mrs. Grubach feel that she was superfluous.Franz Kafka -- The Trial
- I do not feel that the dignity of the court will suffer if we remove a few superfluous outer garments.Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee -- Inherit the Wind
superfluous = unnecessary
superfluous = more than is needed
superfluous = more than is needed, desired, or required
superfluous = more than was needed
superfluous = more than is needed, desired, or required
superfluous = more than is needed
superfluous = more than is desired
superfluous = unnecessary
superfluous = more than is needed, desired, or required
superfluous = unneeded
superfluous = more than is needed
superfluous = more than is needed, desired, or required
superfluous = unnecessary (more than is needed)
superfluous = more than is needed
superfluous = more than is needed, desired, or required
superfluous = (having) more than is needed
superfluous = unneeded
superfluous = more than is needed