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单词
superfluous
释义
superfluous
su‧per‧flu‧ous
/
suːˈpɜːfluəs
$
-ˈpɜːr-
/
adjective
formal
Word Origin
WORD ORIGIN
superfluous
Origin:
1300-1400
Latin
superfluus
, from
superfluere
‘to overflow’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
We're cutting out
superfluous
layers of managers.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
But the human personality of a particular body is not
superfluous
when we fall in love with some one whose body it is.
I take issue with the view that district ethics committees are
superfluous
once central committees have approved a multicentre project.
Idem, my tie, conservative enough with its narrow bands of maroon and white, but here
superfluous
.
Loss of active swimming habits may have rendered the complex suture lines
superfluous
.
Nature abhors the
superfluous
, yet is constrained to produce the seemingly extravagant.
more than is needed or wanted
SYN
unnecessary
:
a modern building with no superfluous decoration
—
superfluously
adverb
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