Definition of Superfluous

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Definition of Superfluous
	Superfluous More than is wanted or is sufficient; rendered unnecessary by superabundance; unnecessary; useless; excessive; as, a superfluous price. Related Definitions: As, By, Excessive, Is, More, Or, Price, Rendered, Sufficient, Superabundance, Superfluous, Than, Useless, Wanted

Superfluous Quotations

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
Leonardo da Vinci

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
Voltaire

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.
Maimonides

If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
Will Durant

It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.
Johannes Brahms

When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
J. G. Ballard

However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.
Hans Kung

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman

Superfluous Translations

superfluous in Afrikaans is oortollig
superfluous in Dutch is overtollig, overbodig
superfluous in Latin is supervacuus, susicivus
superfluous in Spanish is superfluo

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