Crossword-Solution: SUPERFLUOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Superfluous | a. | More than is wanted or is sufficient; rendered unnecessary by superabundance; unnecessary; useless; excessive; as, a superfluous price. |
We have 25 clues for the answer “SUPERFLUOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Uses up flour (anag) – surplus to requirements | 1 answer |
| Exceeding what is sufficient | 1 answer |
| ESSENTIAL (ant.) | 9 answers |
| otiose | 16 answers |
| de trop | 16 answers |
| tautological | 29 answers |
| excrescent | 30 answers |
| Super-abundant | 32 answers |
| plethoric | 32 answers |
| extraneous | 38 answers |
| Too much | 41 answers |
| Long-winded | 43 answers |
| Needless | 44 answers |
| Growing ___ | 46 answers |
| unnecessary | 51 answers |
| grandiloquent | 55 answers |
| redundant | 55 answers |
| profuse | 59 answers |
| Exaggerated | 59 answers |
| Surplus | 63 answers |
| Overflowing | 63 answers |
| Spare | 67 answers |
| Abounding | 68 answers |
| Excessive | 68 answers |
| Excess | 69 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CZEMEA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SUPERFLUOUS (5)
Nor thou his malice and false guile contemn; Suttle he needs must be, who could seduce Angels, nor think superfluous others aid.
The dog took no notice, for he had arrived at an age at which all superfluous barking was cynically avoided as a waste of breath—in fact he never barked even at the sheep except to order, when it was done with an absolutely neutral countenance, as a liturgical form of Commination-service, which, though offensive, had to be gone through once now and then just to frighten the flock for their own good.
Except for that small expenditure in the decoration of her infant, Hester bestowed all her superfluous means in charity, on wretches less miserable than herself, and who not unfrequently insulted the hand that fed them.
The white double rosebush had evidently been propped up anew against the house since the commencement of the season; and a pear-tree and three damson-trees, which, except a row of currant-bushes, constituted the only varieties of fruit, bore marks of the recent amputation of several superfluous or defective limbs.
The Art of Sight Recognition, being no longer needed, was no longer practised; and the studies of Geometry, Statics, Kinetics, and other kindred subjects, came soon to be considered superfluous, and fell into disrespect and neglect even at our University.
Quotes with SUPERFLUOUS (3)
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
You have the power to strip away many superfluous troubles located wholly in your judgement, and to possess a large room for yourself embracing in thought the whole cosmos, to consider everlasting time, to think of the rapid change in the parts of each thing, of how short it is from birth until dissolution, and how the void before birth and that after dissolution are equally infinite.
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Appears in: LAT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1996).