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

Jordan Cvetanovski, chairman and chief investment officer at Pella Funds, said demand for AI infrastructure remains strong as companies race to build computing capacity, but signs of speculative excess are beginning to emerge.

— Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 15 July 2026
The rest of the trailer is filled with the kind of Eighties-style excess — with a gruesome tinge — that showcases what a good match Ellis and Murphy are for each other.

— Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 14 July 2026

Definition of excess

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

Definition of surfeit

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Former child actor Blake Garrett, known best for his role as Plug in the family comedy How To Eat Fried Worms, died from a fentanyl overdose, TMZ reported, citing a summary report from the Oklahoma Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

— Denise Petski, Deadline, 13 July 2026
Narcan, also known as naloxone, is typically used to combat a potential overdose.

— Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 11 July 2026

Definition of overdose

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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

Definition of oversupply

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This hardware is used to test different combinations of wavelengths and amplitudes during calibration.

— John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 10 July 2026
The key to this dual-medium success is wing flexibility, which must be supple enough to reduce flapping amplitude underwater yet rigid enough to keep the vehicle airborne.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 9 July 2026

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