Front | superfluous |
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Pron | [suː'pɜːrfluəs] |
Back | 【superfluous】 adj.多余的 We have enough food for the picnic; any more food would be superfluous. 我们有足够的野餐食物,再多的食物将会是多余的。 |
Vocab | superfluousmore than is needed, desired, or required
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. Superfluous (soo-PER-floo-uhs) means "more than required." Use it when pointing out something that could be removed without detracting from the quality of something: "For a climb over a glacier, the very thickest shoes are absolutely necessary; beyond these, all else seems superfluous to me," wrote the adventurer Charles Stoddard in 1899. The word comes from Latin and literally means "overflowing": super, "over" + fluere, "to flow." So you can think of a superfluous addition as flowing over the boundaries of what's needed. All forms of 'superfluous' will appear on average once every 698 pages. superfluity superfluous superfluously |
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