adjective
- Serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being.
- usage: "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"; "a pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless"; "senseless violence"
- synonyms: otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, wasted
- More than is needed, desired, or required.
- usage: "trying to lose excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary ornamentation"; "it was supererogatory of her to gloat"; "delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words"; "extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts"; "surplus cheese distributed to the needy"
- synonyms: excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, supernumerary, surplus
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