| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| superfluous |
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| SYLLABICATION: | su·per·flu·ous |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  s -pûr fl - s |
| ADJECTIVE: | Being beyond what is required or sufficient. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Old French superflueux, from Latin superfluus, from superfluere, to overflow : super-, super- + fluere, to flow; see bhleu- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | su·perflu·ous·ly —ADVERB
su·perflu·ous·ness —NOUN
| | SYNONYMS: | superfluous, excess, extra, spare, supernumerary, surplus These adjectives mean being more than is needed, desired, required, or appropriate: delete superfluous words; trying to lose excess weight; found some extra change on the dresser; sleeping in the spare room; supernumerary ornamentation; distributed surplus food to the needy.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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