单词	superfluous
释义	superfluoussu‧per‧flu‧ous /suːˈpɜːfluəs $ -ˈpɜːr-/ adjective formal Word Origin WORD ORIGINsuperfluous 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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