ita: superfluo

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Meaning
means	(adjective) not basic or fundamental unessential, inessential
means	(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" superfluous, supernumerary, extra, excess, redundant, surplus, supererogatory, spare
means	(adjective) not necessary unnecessary, unneeded
means	(adjective) unnecessary and unwarranted; "a strikers' tent camp...was burned with needless loss of life" needless, uncalled-for, gratuitous
means	(adjective) not absolutely necessary inessential
means	(adjective) capable of being dispensed with or done without; "dispensable items of personal property" dispensable
means	(adjective) repetition of same sense in different words; "`a true fact' and `a free gift' are pleonastic expressions"; "the phrase `a beginner who has just started' is tautological"; "at the risk of being redundant I return to my original proposition"- J.B.Conant pleonastic, tautological, redundant, tautologic