supernumerary

Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary

I - noun

1. a person serving no apparent function
- reducing staff is difficult because our employees include no supernumeraries
• Hypernyms:
person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
2. a minor actor in crowd scenes
• Syn:
spear carrier, extra
• Hypernyms:
actor, histrion, player, thespian, role player

II - adjective

more than is needed, desired, or required
- trying to lose excess weight
- found some extra change lying on the dresser
- yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant
- skills made redundant by technological advance
- sleeping in the spare room
- supernumerary ornamentation
- it was supererogatory of her to gloat
- delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words
- extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts
- surplus cheese distributed to the needy
• Syn:
excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory,
superfluous, surplus
• Similar to:
unnecessary, unneeded
• Derivationally related forms:
superfluity (for: superfluous), redundance (for: redundant), redundancy (for: redundant)

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, surplus, spear carrier