surplusage

  • 91rest# — rest n Rest, repose, relaxation, leisure, ease, comfort are comparable when they mean freedom from toil or strain. Rest, the most general term, implies withdrawal from all labor or exertion and suggests an opposition to the term work; it does not …

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  • 92superfluity — *excess, surplus, surplusage, overplus Analogous words: overflowing or overflow, teeming, swarming (see TEEM): exuberance, profusion, lavishness, prodigality (see corresponding adjectives at PROFUSE) …

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  • 93surplus — n *excess, superfluity, surplusage, overplus Analogous words: *remainder, residue, residuum Antonyms: deficiency surplus adj *superfluous, supernumerary, extra, spare Contrasted words: *needful …

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  • 94embarrassment — n 1. chagrin, shame, abashment, disconcertment, disconcertion, discomposure, discomfort, uncomfortableness, uneasiness, self consciousness, awkwardness, bashfulness, clumsiness, perturbation, bewilderment. 2. predicament, dilemma, bind, no win… …

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  • 95excess — n 1. overabundance, superabundance, overplus, nimiety, surplus, surplusage, superflux; profusion, surfeit, glut, plethora, overflow, overload, more than enough, enough and to spare, enough and then some; superfluity, redundancy, supererogation,… …

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  • 96fat — adj 1. obese, overweight, flabby, stout, portly, pursy, corpulent, Scot. fodgel; chubby, tubby, pudgy, plump; round, rounded out, rotund; fleshy, well fed; paunchy, potbellied, roundbellied, big bellied, large bellied, great bellied, abdominous,… …

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  • 97leftover — n Usu. leftovers 1. residue, residuum, rest, remainder, balance, carry over; remnants, fragments, scraps, shards; (of food) orts, leavings; oddments, rummage, odds and ends, truck, junk, Inf. crap; rejectamenta. 2. waste, wastage, remains, refuse …

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  • 98nimiety — n excess, overabundance, superabundance, overplus, extra, spare, surplus, surplusage, superflux; flood, deluge, inundation, profusion, abundance, cornucopia, horn of plenty; surfeit, glut, plethora, overflow, overload, oversupply, more than… …

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  • 99overplus — n excess, nimiety, superfluity, redundancy, supererogation; surplus, surplusage, superflux, overflow, overload; overabundance, superabundance, profusion, plethora, oversupply; repletion, surfeit, glut, oversufficiency, more than enough, enough… …

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  • 100padding — n 1. pad, stuffing, wadding, filling, fiber fill, filler, lining, Obs. bombast; wrapping, wrapper, wrapping paper; packing, packing material, shredded newspaper, tissue paper, Trademark. Styrofoam, Chem. polystyrene, plastic bubbles. 2. verbiage …

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