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supererogatory a. 額外的 額外的 supererogatory adj 1: 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" [ synonym: { excess}, { extra}, { redundant}, { spare}, { supererogatory}, { superfluous}, { supernumerary}, { surplus}] Supererogatory \ Su` per* e* rog" a* to* ry\, a. Performed to an extent not enjoined, or not required, by duty or necessity; as, supererogatory services. -- Howell. [ 1913 Webster] 25 Moby Thesaurus words for " supererogatory": de trop, dispensable, excess, expendable, expletive, gratuitous, in excess, needless, nonessential, pleonastic, prolix, redundant, spare, superfluous, supernumerary, tautologic, tautologous, to spare, unasked, uncalled- for, unessential, unnecessary, unneeded, verbose, wanton
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