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/sˌuːpənjˈuːməɹəɹi/
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NOUN
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a person serving no apparent function
reducing staff is difficult because our employees include no supernumeraries - a minor actor in crowd scenes
ADJECTIVE
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more than is needed, desired, or required
extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts
yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant
found some extra change lying on the dresser
supernumerary ornamentation
sleeping in the spare room
trying to lose excess weight
surplus cheese distributed to the needy
skills made redundant by technological advance
delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words
it was supererogatory of her to gloat
How To Use supernumerary In A Sentence
- After being a supernumerary for twelve years, M. Popinot would no doubt die a puisne judge of the Court of the Seine. The Commission in Lunacy
- Supernumerary clavicular muscles are numerous but uncommon.
- Returning to Cardiff, he became a supernumerary registrar to the medical school before leaving to become a general practitioner in the Swansea Valley.
- Next day, thanks to his histrionic powers and his ingratiating address, he was promoted to the rank of "supernumerary captain's servant" -- a "post which," I give his words, "I flatter myself, was created for me alone, and furnished me with opportunities unequalled for a task in which one word malapropos would have been my destruction. Traffics and Discoveries
- But the film also shows that society does not see him as such: it sees only an FOB, a supernumerary worker in a cheap laundromat, a potential Communist agitator.
- Morgagni describes a supernumerary left nympha, and Petit is accredited with seeing a case which exhibited neither nymphæ, clitoris, nor urinary meatus. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
- There may also be room for optional characters, like a Horse Doctor to minister to Old Ball, or a supernumerary mummer who will be called Patsie.
- The new species is highly adapted to hypogean life with very obvious troglobiomorphic features: unpigmented cuticle, an extraordinary lengthening of thorax and appendixes, multiplication of antennomeres and supernumerary placoid sensilla, not just in the apical antennomere but also in the preceding antennomeres. Archive 2007-01-01
- Many of these men were drawn from among the ranks of principal and supernumerary soldiers serving in guard units of the Northern Metropolitan Area, a pool of men with a modicum of military training and ready access to the weapons of the day.
- The incidence of polydactyly (supernumerary digits of hands or feet) is the same in both sexes, with simultaneous polydactyly of the hands and feet present in about one third of cases.
