معنی کلمه superfluous

more than is needed or wanted:
The report was marred by a mass of superfluous detail.

A chapter on hybrid peas seems superfluous when, as the author admits, hybrid varieties are extremely unlikely!
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Superfluous vowels were ignored in this scoring system.
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The use of colorful language and superfluous details is further illustrated by the journalist's excessive description of the protagonist's appearance.
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However, redundant and superfluous cases can be avoided by requiring that no case be added to the set arbitrarily.
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However, since these compilations represent excerpts from accounts which are unevenly conserved, any attempt at counting words or other exercises in quantification are superfluous.
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Gradient alignment at the morphology- prosody interface is not only superfluous, but wrong.
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Evolutionary theory would seem to be superfluous for understanding body (and therefore brain) functions.
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In addition, we argue that the evolutionary framework is superfluous.
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Companies stifled adventuring traders, suppressed free trade, precluded training mariners, brought superfluous commodities into the realm, and caused inflation.

The report was marred by a mass of superfluous details.

Superfluous (soo-PER-floo-uhs) means "more than required." Use it when pointing out something that could be removed without detracting from the quality of something: "For a climb over a glacier, the very thickest shoes are absolutely necessary; beyond these, all else seems superfluous to me,"