supervacaneous

Definitions

Added above what is needed or necessary; superfluous, redundant.

archaic, not-comparable

Equivalents

Examples

“It is an awful thing to find⟳ your efforts supervacaneous when you are so far away from home and friends, sympathy, and help⟳.”

“‘It became all the more important for me to get⟳ out because my son Foster, aged now fifteen, is only ten points below genius and this genius would have⟳ been unavailing and supervacaneous, in other words wasted, behind the iron⟳ curtain.’”

“If I were simply to discuss⟳ noses in disregard of their relation to other entities, then I would declare⟳ without fear of contradiction that the nose of Mrs. Goldfield is superb, superlative, and, though possibly supervacaneous, one well-placed to win⟳ first prize at any exhibition of nasal development which might be organized by the long-nosed goblins on Mount⟳ Kurama.”

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