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Soheil1 Posted 14 years ago
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Hi
What are the differences between
superfluous, excess, extra, spare, supernumerary, surplus


?Thanks in advance!
  

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soheil1 What are the differences between superfluous, excess, extra, spare, supernumerary, surplus I have found a visual thesaurus explaining the closeness of your words. com / Type in the word supernumerary and hit Look it up. In the next page that follows, click try it to see the interactive map.

— Prajwalkr

  • soheil1 What are the differences between superfluous, excess, extra, spare, supernumerary, surplus I have found a visual thesaurus explaining the closeness of your words.
  • com / Type in the word supernumerary and hit Look it up.
  • In the next page that follows, click try it to see the interactive map.
  • A screenshot of the last page: Similarly you can do that many times for different number of words.
  • Hope this helps.
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soheil1What are the differences between superfluous, excess, extra, spare, supernumerary, surplus
I have found a visual thesaurus explaining the closeness of your words.
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/

Type in the word supe
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Hi,

Here are my first quick reactions to each of these words.
Just to give you a feeling for them.

superfluous not needed


excess it's bad in some way that I have this

extra more than I need

spare I have it in case I need itin the future


supernumerary a person with no role, no purpose

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