superfluous

In a sentence

Six example sentences with superfluous, each labelled with its topic.

• He cropped out the superfluous fence post, and the portrait suddenly held nothing but the child and the light.

  Photography

• The committee removed a superfluous column that carried no load and existed only because the first draft had shown four.

  Architecture

• Adding cream to that broth is superfluous, since the roasted bones already give it a body the spoon can feel.

  Cooking

• The review flagged forty lines of superfluous code that checked a condition the function above had already guaranteed.

  Technology

• The producer cut a superfluous bridge from the song, and the chorus arrived thirty seconds sooner and hit harder.

  Music

• The judge struck a superfluous clause that restated the definition already given on the contract's first page.

  Law

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains superfluous. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More GMAT words

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