Search Result for "supererogatory":
Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1. more than is needed, desired, or required;
- Example: "trying to lose excess weight"
- Example: "found some extra change lying on the dresser"
- Example: "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"
- Example: "skills made redundant by technological advance"
- Example: "sleeping in the spare room"
- Example: "supernumerary ornamentation"
- Example: "it was supererogatory of her to gloat"
- Example: "delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words"
- Example: "extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts"
- Example: "surplus cheese distributed to the needy"
[syn: excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Supererogatory \Su`per*e*rog"a*to*ry\, a. Performed to an extent not enjoined, or not required, by duty or necessity; as, supererogatory services. --Howell. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
25 Moby Thesaurus words for "supererogatory": de trop, dispensable, excess, expendable, expletive, gratuitous, in excess, needless, nonessential, pleonastic, prolix, redundant, spare, superfluous, supernumerary, tautologic, tautologous, to spare, unasked, uncalled-for, unessential, unnecessary, unneeded, verbose, wanton
