supernumerary
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
- arrow points to the broader concept
- dashed outline: no word in this language
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a person serving no apparent function
reducing staff is difficult because our employees include no supernumeraries
Types & categories
- person hypernym
Related & opposite
- excess derivation
Sense 2 adjective
more than is needed, desired, or required
trying to lose excess weight
Related & opposite
- redundancy derivation
- overplus derivation
- redundance derivation
- redundancy derivation
- redundancy derivation
- supernumerary derivation
- unnecessary similar to
Sense 3 noun
a minor actor in crowd scenes
Types & categories
- actor hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | excess |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | person |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | redundancy |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | overplus |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | redundance |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | redundancy |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | redundancy |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | supernumerary |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | unnecessary |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | actor |