Word Meanings - SUPERFLUITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A greater quantity than is wanted; superabundance; as, a superfluity of water; a superfluity of wealth. A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity. Suckling. 2. The state or quality of being superfluous; excess.

Additional info about word: SUPERFLUITY

1. A greater quantity than is wanted; superabundance; as, a superfluity of water; a superfluity of wealth. A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity. Suckling. 2. The state or quality of being superfluous; excess. "By a superfluity abominable." Chaucer. 3. Something beyond what is needed; something which serves for show or luxury. Syn. -- Superabundance; excess; redundancy.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SUPERFLUITY)

• Excess
• Advance
• increase
• abundance
• redundancy
• superfluity
• extravagance
• surplus
• debauchery
• intemperance
• Excrescence
• Superfluity
• imposthume
• tumor
• Glut
• Surplus
• overstock
• Supererogation
• excess
• superabundance
• supervacaneousness
• needlessness
• Trash
• Nonsense
• refuse
• vileness
• offal
• worthlessness
• dross
• trifles
• stuff
• waste matter
• seaweed
• sawdust
• twaddle

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SUPERFLUITY)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease
• Grant
• afford
• yield
• concede
• acquiesce

Related words: (words related to SUPERFLUITY)

• SUPERFLUITY
  1. A greater quantity than is wanted; superabundance; as, a superfluity of water; a superfluity of wealth. A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity. Suckling. 2. The state or quality of being superfluous; excess.
• SURPLUS
  1. That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus. 2. Specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government.
• SAWDUST
  Dust or small fragments of wood 9or of stone, etc.) made by the cutting of a saw.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• TUMOR
  A morbid swelling, prominence, or growth, on any part of the body; especially, a growth produced by deposition of new tissue; a neoplasm. 2. Affected pomp; bombast; swelling words or expressions; false magnificence or sublimity. Better, however,
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• MATTER
  1. To be of importance; to import; to signify. It matters not how they were called. Locke. 2. To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate. "Each slight sore mattereth." Sir P. Sidney.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• DROSS
  1. The scum or refuse matter which is thrown off, or falls from, metals in smelting the ore, or in the process of melting; recrement. 2. Rust of metals. Addison. 3. Waste matter; any worthless matter separated from the better part; leavings;
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• YIELDABLE
  Disposed to yield or comply. -- Yield"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Hall.
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• YIELDANCE
  1. The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth. Bp. Hall. 2. The act of yielding; concession. South.
• DECREASE
  1. A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength. 2. The wane of the moon. Bacon.
• ABUNDANCE
  An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been
• TRASHILY
  In a trashy manner.
• OPPOSELESS
  Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
• WITHDRAWAL
  The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. Fielding.
• ACQUIESCENTLY
  In an acquiescent manner.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• YIELD
  pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
• IMMIGRANT
  One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant. Syn. -- See Emigrant.
• FLAGRANT
  1. Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior. A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker. 2. Actually in
• INSUPPRESSIBLE
  That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.
• SERVILENESS
  Quality of being servile; servility.
• INTEGRANT
  Making part of a whole; necessary to constitute an entire thing; integral. Boyle. All these are integrant parts of the republic. Burke. Integrant parts, or particles, of bodies, those smaller particles into which a body may be reduced without loss