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superfluous
adjective
Reveal meaning and examples
More than is needed or serving no useful purpose.
Removing superfluous phrases made the instructions clearer.
Dictionary practice example.
The festival's print shop offered to produce direction signs for a nominal charge. Even so, the planning group spent an inordinate amount of time debating the color of one arrow. Priya returned attention to the wording. Several lines were superfluous because they repeated directions already shown by the map, and removing them made the sign easier to scan.
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