exceeding what is sufficient or necessary
serving no useful purpose
SYN - otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, wasted
more than is needed, desired, or required
SYN - excess, extra, redundant, spare, surplus
ANT - valuable
"delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words."
"He realized that it would be superfluous to address the nation again about the economy, when there was nothing new to be said."
"She didn't really care to deal with him and all of his superfluous conversation."
"He tried as hard as possible to get rid of the superfluous parts of his paper to meet the word limit, but to him all the words were necessary they all had served a purpose."
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