11 Letter Words for Superfluous
superfluous
10 Letter Words for Superfluous
sulfureous
9 Letter Words for Superfluous
pursefuls, spurluous, sulfurous
8 Letter Words for Superfluous
opuluses, poursues, pressful, purseful, refluous, rufulous, sporules, uprouses
7 Letter Words for Superfluous
flosser, flouses, fossule, foulers, fourses, furless, furoles, leprous, lupuses, ourself, oursels, pelorus, perlous, plessor, poseurs, poursue, preloss, profess, profuse, pulsers, purfles, pursues, repouss, seropus, slopers, soupers, souples, splores, sporule, sulfurs, surfuse, surplus, upfurls, uprouse
6 Letter Words for Superfluous
eurous, eusols, ferous, flores, flours, flouse, fluors, forels, fouler, fueros, furole, furols, fusels, fusser, fussle, fusure, lessor, lopers, losers, losser, loupes, loures, louses, lupous, opulus, opuses, ousels, pluses, polers, porule, posers, poseur, posser, poules, pouser, pousse, presul, proles, proses, prouls, pulers, pulser, pulses, pulsus, purfle, purses, pursue, pusles, pussel, pusser, roules, rouses, rueful, rufous, russel, serous, sloper, slopes, slurps, solers, soleus, sorels, souper, souple, sourse, souser, splore, spores, spouse, sprose, sprues, spules, sulfur, superl, supers, surfle, uloses, upfurl, uprose, uroses, uruses, useful, usself, usures, usurps
5 Letter Words for Superfluous
elops, eorls, epulo, euros, eurus, eusol, fleur, floes, flops, flors, floss, flour, fluer, flues, fluor, forel, fores, fosse, fouer, foule, fouls, fours, fress, froes, fuels, fuero, furls, furol, furos, fusel, fuses, lepus, lerps, loess, loper, lopes, lores, loser, loses, loupe, loups, loure, lours, louse, lupus, lures, luser, lusus, olpes, opelu, orfes, orles, orsel, ousel, pelfs, pesos, poler, poles, pores, porus, poser, poses, posse, poufs, poule, pours, press, profs, prole, prose, pross, proul, puers, puler, pules, pulse, pulus, purls, purse, purus, puses, pusle, repos, resup, roles, rolfs, ropes, rosel, roses, roues, roule, rouls, roups, rouse, rufus, rules, ruses, russe, selfs, seoul, serfs, sloes, slope, slops, slorp, slour, sluer, slues, slurp, slurs, sluse, sofer, soler, soles, solus, sorel, sores, sorus, souls, soups, sours, souse, speos, spole, spore, sprue, spues, spule, spurl, spurs, suers, sulfo, sulus, super, supes, surfs, ursus, users, usure, usurp
4 Letter Words for Superfluous
elfs, eorl, epos, eros, esop, euro, fels, fers, feru, fess, feus, floe, flop, flor, flue, flus, foes, fole, fops, fore, foss, foul, four, fous, froe, fros, fuel, furl, furo, furs, fuse, fuss, leos, leps, lerp, less, lope, lops, lore, lors, lose, loss, loup, lour, lues, lupe, lure, lurs, oles, olpe, opes, opus, ores, orfe, orfs, orle, oses, osse, oups, ours, pelf, pelu, perf, pers, peru, peso, pess, plur, plus, pole, pols, pore, pose, poss, pouf, pour, pref, pres, prof, pros, puer, pule, puls, pulu, pure, purl, purs, puss, refl, refs, repl, repo, reps, resp, roes, role, rolf, rope, rose, ross, roue, roul, roup, rous, rues, rule, ruse, russ, self, sels, seor, seps, serf, sero, sers, sloe, slop, slue, slup, slur, sole, sols, sope, sops, sore, soul, soup, sour, sous, spor, spue, spur, suer, sues, sulu, supe, supr, sups, sure, surf, susu, ufer, ufos, ules, ulus, ures, urol, urps, urus, user, uses, ussr
3 Letter Words for Superfluous
efl, efs, elf, els, eof, eos, erf, ers, esp, esr, ess, esu, fer, fes, feu, flo, flu, foe, fol, fop, for, fou, fps, fro, frs, fur, leo, lep, ler, les, leu, loe, lof, lop, lor, los, lue, luo, lur, oer, oes, ole, olp, ope, ops, ore, orf, orl, ors, ose, ouf, oup, our, ous, pel, per, pes, plf, plu, pol, por, pos, pre, prf, pro, prs, psf, pul, pur, pus, ref, rel, rep, res, rfs, rle, roe, ros, rps, rue, sel, sep, ser, sle, sol, sop, sou, spl, sps, sse, ssp, ssu, sue, suf, sup, sur, sus, ufo, ufs, ule, ulu, upo, ups, ure, urf, urp, urs, use, usu
Definitions for Superfluous
[1] being more than is sufficient or required; excessive.
[2] unnecessary or needless.
[3] Obsolete . possessing or spending more than enough or necessary; extravagant.
[4] exceeding what is sufficient or required
[5] not necessary or relevant; uncalled-for
[6] obsolete extravagant in expenditure or oversupplied with possessions
Words related to Superfluous
excessive, expendable, gratuitous, redundant, useless, unneeded, abounding, dispensable, excess, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, inordinate, lavish, leftover, needless, nonessential, overflowing, profuse, remaining
Words nearby Superfluous
superfine, superfix, superfluid, superfluidity, superfluity, superfluous, superfood, superfortress, superfund, superfuse, supergalaxy
Origin of Superfluous
1400–50; late Middle English < Latin superfluus, equivalent to super- super- + flu- (stem of fluere to flow) + -us -ous
Other words from Superfluous
su·per·flu·ous·ly , adverb
su·per·flu·ous·ness , noun
un·su·per·flu·ous , adjective
un·su·per·flu·ous·ly , adverb
un·su·per·flu·ous·ness , noun
Word origin for Superfluous
C15: from Latin superfluus overflowing, from super- + fluere to flow
Synonyms for Superfluous
excessive, expendable, gratuitous, redundant, unneeded, useless, abounding, de trop, dispensable, excess, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, in excess, inessential, inordinate, lavish, leftover, needless, nonessential, overflowing, overmuch, pleonastic, profuse, remaining, residuary, spare, superabundant, supererogatory, superfluent, supernumerary, surplus, unasked, uncalled-for, unrequired, unwanted
