SUPERFLUOUSNESS Synonyms: 43 Similar and Opposite Words

superfluousness

noun

as in surplus

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Noun

The false surplus sparked a sharp increase in spending that has outstripped revenues ever since.

— Dan Walters, Mercury News, 9 July 2026
The investment is part of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s $45 million allocation of tax increment financing surplus to the Park District this year.

— Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2026

Definition of surplus

Noun

No amount of time-traveling expeditions to reboot or create alternate timelines can save it now, because it's been done to the point of overkill.

— Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 3 July 2026
If the league shifted the primary burden of development to colleges, would those tools amount to overkill?

— Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 24 June 2026

Definition of overkill

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That has never been the case for the first two seasons of House of the Dragon, with its surfeit of…everything.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 15 June 2026
Days after the World Cup friendlies had passed, earlier this month, yielding one win and a surfeit of thrill, FIFA rejected the Haitian jersey, citing its depiction of the Battle of Vertières as a violation to its regulation on political speech.

— Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 13 June 2026

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The man survived and no one was ever charged with a crime for the overdose, but Gillum withdrew from public life for months afterward while seeking treatment for alcohol abuse and depression.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026
That was followed by an embarrassing incident a little more than a year later in March 2020 when Gillum was found in a Miami Beach hotel room with two men, one of whom had a heart attack from what police believed to be a drug overdose.

— David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 7 July 2026

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Downtown has suffered from an oversupply of office space since a building spree in the 1980s and early 1990s.

— Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
The oil market is coming full circle as millions of barrels that were stranded in the Persian Gulf head to global markets, creating a sudden oversupply that has pushed prices to their lowest level since the US-Iran war began.

— Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 30 June 2026

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