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- unnecessary
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- de trop,
- dispensable,
- disposable,
- excess,
- expendable,
- expletive,
- gratuitous,
- in excess,
- inessential,
- needless,
- nonessential,
- pleonastic,
- prolix,
- redundant,
- spare,
- supererogatory,
- superfluous,
- surplus,
- tautologic,
- tautologous,
- to spare,
- uncalled-for,
- unessential,
- unneeded,
- unrequired,
- unwanted,
- verbose
- de trop,
- dispensable,
- excess,
- excessive,
- expendable,
- expletive,
- gratuitous,
- in excess,
- inessential,
- naturally,
- nonessential,
- obviously,
- pleonastic,
- prolix,
- redundant,
- spare,
- supererogatory,
- superfluous,
- tautologic,
- tautological,
- tautologous,
- to spare,
- uncalled-for,
- unessential,
- unnecessary,
- unneeded,
- unrequired,
- unwanted,
- useless,
- verbose
- expendable
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- (used of funds) remaining after taxes; "spendable income"
- suitable to be expended related words >
- consumable,
- de trop,
- dispensable,
- disposable,
- excess,
- expletive,
- gratuitous,
- in excess,
- inessential,
- insignificant,
- needless,
- no-deposit,
- nonessential,
- pleonastic,
- prolix,
- redundant,
- replaceable,
- spare,
- spendable,
- substitutable,
- supererogatory,
- superfluous,
- supersedable,
- tautologic,
- tautologous,
- throwaway,
- to spare,
- uncalled-for,
- unessential,
- unimportant,
- unnecessary,
- unneeded,
- verbose
- abundant,
- battological,
- copious,
- de trop,
- diffuse,
- diffusive,
- dispensable,
- duplicative,
- echoic,
- echoing,
- effusive,
- excess,
- expendable,
- expletive,
- extravagant,
- exuberant,
- fecund,
- formless,
- gratuitous,
- gushing,
- gushy,
- imitative,
- in excess,
- iterative,
- needless,
- nonessential,
- overflowing,
- parrotlike,
- pleonastic,
- prodigal,
- productive,
- profuse,
- profusive,
- prolific,
- prolix,
- recapitulative,
- redundant,
- reduplicative,
- reechoing,
- reiterant,
- reiterative,
- repeating,
- repetitional,
- repetitionary,
- repetitious,
- repetitive,
- spare,
- superabundant,
- supererogatory,
- superfluous,
- tautologic,
- tautological,
- teeming,
- to spare,
- uncalled-for,
- unessential,
- unnecessary,
- unneeded,
- verbose
- de trop,
- dispensable,
- excess,
- expendable,
- expletive,
- extra,
- fresh,
- gratuitous,
- held back,
- held in reserve,
- held out,
- in abeyance,
- in excess,
- in hand,
- left,
- leftover,
- mint,
- needless,
- net,
- new,
- nonessential,
- odd,
- original,
- outstanding,
- over,
- pleonastic,
- pristine,
- prolix,
- put aside,
- put by,
- redundant,
- remaining,
- remanent,
- reserve,
- saved,
- spare,
- stored,
- supererogatory,
- superfluous,
- surplus,
- surviving,
- suspended,
- tautologic,
- tautologous,
- unapplied,
- unbeaten,
- uncalled-for,
- unconsumed,
- unemployed,
- unessential,
- unexercised,
- unexpended,
- unhandled,
- unnecessary,
- unneeded,
- unspent,
- untapped,
- untouched,
- untrodden,
- unused,
- unutilized,
- verbose,
- waived
- dispensable
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- capable of being dispensed with or done without; "dispensable items of personal property" related words >
- admissible,
- allocated,
- allowable,
- apportionable,
- apportioned,
- back-burner,
- condonable,
- de trop,
- defensible,
- dinky,
- disposable,
- distributable,
- divisible,
- excess,
- excusable,
- exemptible,
- expendable,
- expiable,
- expletive,
- forgivable,
- gratuitous,
- immaterial,
- in excess,
- inappreciable,
- inconsequential,
- inconsiderable,
- inessential,
- inferior,
- inoffensive,
- insignificant,
- irrelevant,
- justifiable,
- legitimate,
- little,
- minor,
- minute,
- needless,
- negligible,
- nonessential,
- not vital,
- parceled,
- pardonable,
- petit,
- pleonastic,
- portioned out,
- prolix,
- reasonable,
- redundant,
- remissible,
- severable,
- small,
- spare,
- supererogatory,
- superfluous,
- tautologic,
- tautologous,
- technical,
- to spare,
- uncalled-for,
- unessential,
- unimpressive,
- unnecessary,
- unneeded,
- unnoteworthy,
- unobjectionable,
- useless,
- venial,
- verbose,
- vindicable,
- warrantable
- accessory,
- accidental,
- additional,
- adscititious,
- adventitious,
- aimless,
- appurtenant,
- ascititious,
- auxiliary,
- casual,
- circumstantial,
- collateral,
- contingent,
- de trop,
- dispensable,
- excess,
- excessive,
- expendable,
- expletive,
- extra,
- feckless,
- fortuitous,
- gratuitous,
- impotent,
- in excess,
- incidental,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inessential,
- left,
- leftover,
- meaningless,
- needless,
- net,
- no go,
- nonessential,
- odd,
- of no use,
- outstanding,
- over,
- pleonastic,
- pointless,
- prolix,
- purposeless,
- redundant,
- remaining,
- remanent,
- secondary,
- spare,
- subsidiary,
- superabundant,
- superadded,
- supererogatory,
- supernumerary,
- supervenient,
- supplemental,
- supplementary,
- surplus,
- surviving,
- tautologic,
- tautologous,
- to spare,
- unasked,
- unavailing,
- uncalled-for,
- unconsumed,
- unessential,
- unnecessary,
- unneeded,
- unused,
- unwanted,
- useless,
- verbose
- abundant,
- battological,
- circumlocutory,
- copious,
- de trop,
- diffuse,
- diffusive,
- dispensable,
- duplicative,
- echoic,
- echoing,
- effusive,
- excess,
- excessive,
- expendable,
- expletive,
- extra,
- extravagant,
- exuberant,
- fecund,
- formless,
- gratuitous,
- gushing,
- gushy,
- imitative,
- in excess,
- inessential,
- iterative,
- long-winded,
- needless,
- nonessential,
- overflowing,
- parrotlike,
- pleonastic,
- prodigal,
- productive,
- profuse,
- profusive,
- prolific,
- prolix,
- recapitulative,
- reduplicative,
- reechoing,
- reiterant,
- reiterative,
- repeating,
- repetitional,
- repetitionary,
- repetitious,
- repetitive,
- roundabout,
- spare,
- superabundant,
- supererogatory,
- superfluous,
- supernumerary,
- surplus,
- tautologic,
- tautological,
- tautologous,
- teeming,
- to spare,
- uncalled-for,
- unessential,
- unnecessary,
- unneeded,
- unwanted,
- verbose,
- windy,
- wordy
- all jaw,
- candid,
- chatty,
- circumlocutory,
- communicative,
- conversational,
- de longue haleine,
- de trop,
- diffuse,
- dispensable,
- effusive,
- endless,
- excess,
- expansive,
- expendable,
- expletive,
- extended,
- filled out,
- flip,
- flowery,
- fluent,
- frank,
- gabby,
- garrulous,
- gassy,
- glib,
- gossipy,
- grandiloquent,
- gratuitous,
- gregarious,
- gushy,
- in excess,
- lengthy,
- long,
- long-drawn-out,
- long-spun,
- long-winded,
- longiloquent,
- loquacious,
- magniloquent,
- multiloquent,
- multiloquious,
- needless,
- newsy,
- nonessential,
- overtalkative,
- padded,
- periphrastic,
- pleonastic,
- prolix,
- protracted,
- redundant,
- smooth,
- sociable,
- spare,
- spun-out,
- supererogatory,
- superfluous,
- talkative,
- talky,
- tautologic,
- tautologous,
- to spare,
- uncalled-for,
- unessential,
- unnecessary,
- unneeded,
- unrelenting,
- voluble,
- windy,
- wordy
- expletive
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- a word or phrase conveying no independent meaning but added to fill out a sentence or metrical line related words >
- battology,
- bedizenment,
- blurt,
- curse,
- cuss,
- cuss word,
- de trop,
- dirty name,
- dirty word,
- dispensable,
- duplication,
- duplication of effort,
- dysphemism,
- ecphonesis,
- ejaculation,
- embellishment,
- epithet,
- excess,
- exclamation,
- expendable,
- extravagance,
- fat,
- featherbedding,
- filler,
- filling,
- foul invective,
- frill,
- frills,
- frippery,
- gingerbread,
- gratuitous,
- in excess,
- iterative,
- luxury,
- macrology,
- naughty word,
- needless,
- needlessness,
- no-no,
- nonessential,
- oath,
- obscenity,
- ornamentation,
- outburst,
- overadornment,
- overlap,
- padding,
- payroll padding,
- pleonasm,
- pleonastic,
- profane oath,
- prolix,
- prolixity,
- redundance,
- redundancy,
- redundant,
- reiterative,
- repetitious,
- spare,
- stammering,
- stuttering,
- supererogatory,
- superfluity,
- superfluous,
- superfluousness,
- swear,
- swearword,
- tautologic,
- tautological,
- tautologism,
- tautologous,
- tautology,
- to spare,
- uncalled-for,
- unessential,
- unnecessariness,
- unnecessary,
- unneeded,
- verbose,
- verbosity,
- wordy
- prolix
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- tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length; "editing a prolix manuscript"; "a prolix lecturer telling you more than you want to know" related words >
- all jaw,
- blah,
- broken-record,
- candid,
- chatty,
- communicative,
- conversational,
- de longue haleine,
- de trop,
- diffuse,
- dispensable,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dusty,
- effusive,
- endless,
- everlasting,
- excess,
- expansive,
- expendable,
- expletive,
- extended,
- filled out,
- flip,
- fluent,
- frank,
- gabby,
- garrulous,
- gassy,
- glib,
- gossipy,
- gratuitous,
- gregarious,
- gushy,
- harping,
- humdrum,
- in excess,
- invariable,
- irksome,
- jog-trot,
- lengthy,
- long,
- long-drawn-out,
- long-spun,
- long-winded,
- longiloquent,
- loquacious,
- monotonous,
- multiloquent,
- multiloquious,
- needless,
- newsy,
- nonessential,
- overtalkative,
- padded,
- pleonastic,
- prolonged,
- protracted,
- redundant,
- singsong,
- smooth,
- sociable,
- spare,
- spun-out,
- supererogatory,
- superfluous,
- talkative,
- talky,
- tautologic,
- tautologous,
- tedious,
- tiresome,
- to spare,
- treadmill,
- uncalled-for,
- unessential,
- uneventful,
- unnecessary,
- unneeded,
- unrelenting,
- unvarying,
- verbose,
- voluble,
- wearisome,
- windy,
- wordy
- accessory,
- accident,
- accidental,
- addendum,
- addition,
- additional,
- adjunct,
- adrift,
- adscititious,
- adventitious,
- aleatory,
- appendage,
- appurtenance,
- appurtenant,
- ascititious,
- auxiliary,
- back-burner,
- beside the mark,
- beside the point,
- beside the question,
- casual,
- circumstantial,
- collateral,
- conditional,
- contingency,
- contingent,
- de trop,
- dinky,
- dispensable,
- excess,
- expendable,
- expletive,
- extra,
- extraneous,
- extrinsic,
- fortuitous,
- gratuitous,
- happenstance,
- immaterial,
- impertinent,
- in excess,
- inadmissible,
- inapplicable,
- inapposite,
- inappreciable,
- inappropriate,
- incidental,
- inconsequent,
- inconsequential,
- inconsiderable,
- inessential,
- inferior,
- insignificant,
- irrelative,
- irrelevant,
- little,
- mere chance,
- minor,
- minute,
- needless,
- negligible,
- nihil ad rem,
- not at issue,
- not vital,
- not-self,
- occasional,
- off the subject,
- other,
- out-of-the-way,
- parenthetical,
- petit,
- pleonastic,
- prolix,
- provisional,
- redundant,
- secondary,
- small,
- spare,
- subsidiary,
- superadded,
- superaddition,
- supererogatory,
- superfluous,
- supervenient,
- supplement,
- supplemental,
- supplementary,
- tautologic,
- tautologous,
- technical,
- to spare,
- uncalled-for,
- unessential,
- unimpressive,
- unnecessary,
- unneeded,
- unnoteworthy,
- unrequired,
- verbose
- accessory,
- accident,
- accidental,
- addendum,
- addition,
- additional,
- adjunct,
- adrift,
- adscititious,
- adventitious,
- aleatory,
- appendage,
- appurtenance,
- appurtenant,
- ascititious,
- auxiliary,
- back-burner,
- beside the mark,
- beside the point,
- beside the question,
- casual,
- circumstantial,
- collateral,
- conditional,
- contingency,
- contingent,
- de trop,
- dinky,
- dispensable,
- excess,
- expendable,
- expletive,
- extra,
- extraneous,
- extrinsic,
- fortuitous,
- gratuitous,
- happenstance,
- immaterial,
- impertinent,
- in excess,
- inadmissible,
- inapplicable,
- inapposite,
- inappreciable,
- inappropriate,
- incidental,
- inconsequent,
- inconsequential,
- inconsiderable,
- inessential,
- inferior,
- insignificant,
- irrelative,
- irrelevant,
- little,
- mere chance,
- minor,
- minute,
- needless,
- negligible,
- nihil ad rem,
- nonessential,
- not at issue,
- not vital,
- not-self,
- occasional,
- off the subject,
- other,
- out-of-the-way,
- parenthetical,
- petit,
- pleonastic,
- prolix,
- provisional,
- redundant,
- secondary,
- small,
- spare,
- subsidiary,
- superadded,
- superaddition,
- supererogatory,
- superfluous,
- supervenient,
- supplement,
- supplemental,
- supplementary,
- tautologic,
- tautologous,
- technical,
- to spare,
- uncalled-for,
- unimpressive,
- unnecessary,
- unneeded,
- unnoteworthy,
- unrequired,
- verbose
- absurd,
- arbitrary,
- autonomous,
- biggety,
- bluff,
- bottomless,
- brash,
- cheeky,
- chutzpadik,
- cocky,
- contemptuous,
- crusty,
- de trop,
- derisive,
- discourteous,
- discretional,
- discretionary,
- dispensable,
- disrespectful,
- elective,
- excess,
- expendable,
- expletive,
- facy,
- flip,
- flippant,
- foolish,
- free,
- free will,
- fresh,
- gally,
- gratuitous,
- groundless,
- ill-mannered,
- impertinent,
- impolite,
- impudent,
- in excess,
- independent,
- inessential,
- intrusive,
- malapert,
- needless,
- nervy,
- nonessential,
- nonmandatory,
- offered,
- officious,
- optional,
- pert,
- pleonastic,
- preposterous,
- proffered,
- prolix,
- redundant,
- rude,
- sassy,
- saucy,
- self-acting,
- self-active,
- self-determined,
- self-determining,
- silly,
- smart,
- smart-alecky,
- smart-ass,
- spare,
- spontaneous,
- supererogatory,
- superfluous,
- tautologic,
- tautologous,
- to spare,
- unasked,
- unasked-for,
- unbesought,
- unbidden,
- uncivil,
- uncoerced,
- uncompelled,
- undesired,
- unessential,
- unforced,
- unfounded,
- ungracious,
- ungrounded,
- uninfluenced,
- uninvited,
- unnecessary,
- unneeded,
- unpressured,
- unprompted,
- unrequested,
- unrequired,
- unsolicited,
- unsought,
- unwanted,
- unwarranted,
- unwelcome,
- unwished,
- verbose,
- voluntary,
- volunteer,
- wanton,
- willful,
- wise-ass
- excess
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- immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits
- a quantity much larger than is needed
- 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" related words >
- Saturnalia,
- aggrandizement,
- amplification,
- ballyhoo,
- big talk,
- blowing up,
- burlesque,
- caricature,
- crapulence,
- crapulency,
- crapulousness,
- de trop,
- debauchery,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- disentitlement,
- dispensable,
- dissipation,
- dissoluteness,
- drunkenness,
- empty claim,
- empty title,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- exaggerating,
- exaggeration,
- excessive,
- excessiveness,
- exorbitance,
- exorbitancy,
- expansion,
- expendable,
- expletive,
- extortionateness,
- extra,
- extravagance,
- extreme,
- false claim,
- fat,
- glut,
- gluttony,
- grandiloquence,
- gratuitous,
- heightening,
- huckstering,
- hyperbole,
- hyperbolism,
- immoderacy,
- immoderateness,
- immoderation,
- impropriety,
- in excess,
- inappropriateness,
- incontinence,
- indiscipline,
- indulgence,
- inflation,
- inordinacy,
- inordinateness,
- intemperance,
- intemperateness,
- inundation,
- invalid claim,
- lack of claim,
- leftover,
- leftovers,
- magnification,
- needless,
- nimiety,
- no claim,
- nonessential,
- outrageousness,
- overabundance,
- overage,
- overbalance,
- overdoing,
- overemphasis,
- overestimation,
- overflow,
- overflowing,
- overgrowth,
- overindulgence,
- overkill,
- overmeasure,
- overmuch,
- overpass,
- overplus,
- overproduction,
- overrun,
- overrunning,
- overspill,
- overspreading,
- overstatement,
- overstock,
- oversupply,
- pleonastic,
- plethora,
- plus,
- preposterousness,
- prodigality,
- profuseness,
- profusion,
- prolix,
- puffery,
- puffing up,
- redundancy,
- redundant,
- remaining,
- residual,
- self-indulgence,
- self-restraint,
- sensationalism,
- spare,
- stretching,
- superabundance,
- supererogation,
- supererogatory,
- superfluity,
- superfluous,
- superiority,
- superlative,
- supernumerary,
- surfeit,
- surplus,
- surplusage,
- swinishness,
- tall talk,
- tautologic,
- tautologous,
- to spare,
- too much,
- too-muchness,
- touting,
- travesty,
- uncalled-for,
- unconscionableness,
- unconstraint,
- uncontrol,
- undeservedness,
- undeservingness,
- undueness,
- unentitledness,
- unessential,
- unmeritedness,
- unnecessary,
- unneeded,
- unreasonableness,
- unrestraint,
- verbose
- gratuitous
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- without cause; "a gratuitous insult"
- unnecessary and unwarranted; "a strikers' tent camp...was burned with needless loss of life" related words >
- God-given,
- accorded,
- aimless,
- allowed,
- amorphous,
- arbitrary,
- autonomous,
- baseless,
- bestowed,
- biggety,
- bluff,
- bottomless,
- brash,
- capricious,
- casual,
- charitable,
- cheeky,
- chutzpadik,
- cocky,
- complimentary,
- contemptuous,
- costless,
- crusty,
- de trop,
- derisive,
- desultory,
- disarticulated,
- discontinuous,
- discretional,
- discretionary,
- disjunct,
- disordered,
- dispensable,
- dispersed,
- disproportionate,
- disrespectful,
- elective,
- eleemosynary,
- erratic,
- excess,
- expendable,
- expenseless,
- expletive,
- facy,
- fitful,
- flip,
- flippant,
- for free,
- for love,
- for nothing,
- formless,
- free,
- free as air,
- free for nothing,
- free gratis,
- free of charge,
- free of cost,
- free will,
- freebie,
- fresh,
- frivolous,
- gally,
- giftlike,
- given,
- granted,
- gratis,
- groundless,
- haphazard,
- hit-or-miss,
- immethodical,
- impertinent,
- impudent,
- in excess,
- inchoate,
- incoherent,
- indefensible,
- independent,
- indiscriminate,
- irrational,
- irregular,
- malapert,
- meaningless,
- misshapen,
- needless,
- nervy,
- nonessential,
- nonmandatory,
- nonsymmetrical,
- nonsystematic,
- nonuniform,
- offered,
- on the house,
- optional,
- orderless,
- pert,
- planless,
- pleonastic,
- proffered,
- prolix,
- promiscuous,
- providential,
- random,
- reasonless,
- redundant,
- rude,
- sassy,
- saucy,
- self-acting,
- self-active,
- self-determined,
- self-determining,
- senseless,
- shapeless,
- smart,
- smart-alecky,
- smart-ass,
- spare,
- spasmodic,
- spontaneous,
- sporadic,
- straggling,
- straggly,
- supererogatory,
- superfluous,
- systemless,
- tautologic,
- tautologous,
- to spare,
- unarranged,
- unasked,
- unbesought,
- unbidden,
- unbought,
- uncalled-for,
- unclassified,
- uncoerced,
- uncompelled,
- undirected,
- unessential,
- unforced,
- unfounded,
- ungraded,
- ungrounded,
- uninfluenced,
- uninvited,
- unjoined,
- unjustifiable,
- unjustified,
- unlooked-for,
- unmethodical,
- unnecessary,
- unneeded,
- unordered,
- unorganized,
- unpaid-for,
- unpressured,
- unprompted,
- unrequested,
- unrequired,
- unsolicited,
- unsorted,
- unsought,
- unsupportable,
- unsymmetrical,
- unsystematic,
- untaxed,
- ununiform,
- unwarranted,
- unwelcome,
- vague,
- verbose,
- voluntary,
- volunteer,
- vouchsafed,
- wandering,
- wanton,
- willful,
- willing,
- wise-ass,
- without charge
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