superfluously
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8.1
- adverb
- /suːˈpɜrflʊəsli/
:
superfluamente
- The lecture was superfluously long, dragging on for over three hours without adding any new information.
Examples
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" It's raining," Father Jorge announced superfluously.
Fiction book (2000) -
Though its doctrinal edifice, and in part quite superfluously, comes into collision with exact science and research, it is nonetheless unwilling to sacrifice so much as one little syllable of its dogmas. It is only such dogmas that lend to the whole body the character of a faith.
Blog text (8) -
Lucky for you we happened along, my most superfluously toasted friend.
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I didn't want to superfluously apply.
Blog text (26) -
Despite intensive regional power antagonism between Iran and Saudi Arabia, Pakistan has not sided superfluously with anyone in this rivalry as it would antagonize others.
Academic text (2018) -
It has us believe that the wonder we desire to find within ourselves and elsewhere represents a conflict between superfluously realizing all our desires and remanding them to the emptiness of a fiction whose designs remain unknown.
Academic text (2000) -
If all can agree that he's a sheriff, but may or may not be Chigurh, the killer, or whatever, the fact remains that he could have found Moss's place of employment without having to ask the overweight trailer park receptionist, without having to superfluously expose himself as a potentially suspicious person looking into the whereabouts of an individual who will very soon become a missing person for cops, FBI, or DEA to work off.
Blog text (24) -
She packed superfluously for the weekend trip, bringing five pairs of shoes for just two days.
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The movie featured superfluously complicated plot twists that confused most of the audience.
Synonyms
189
3.5
To a degree that is too much or not wanted
48
3.7
Without a good reason
34
3.9
Without a good reason
32
3.0
To a degree that is more than needed or acceptable
21
6.9
More than is reasonable or necessary
7
7.5
To a much greater degree than is normal
Antonyms
How Unnecessary
Surface Forms
Morphology
superfluously = superfluous (transparent) = superfluous + ly
Formed by regular adjectival-to-adverbial suffixation from 'superfluous', so the meaning 'in an unnecessary/excessive way' is directly derived.
Etymology
Superfluously comes from Latin parts super- meaning 'above' and fluere meaning 'to flow', like the English word 'flow'. So it once meant 'to flow over', an extra flow you do not need, which is why superfluously means doing something more than necessary or unnecessarily.