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Definition: De Trop |
De TropAdjective1. Being excessive or unreasonable; "the clothes she wears are a bit much"; "in retrospect the elaborate preparations seemed de trop"; "this is entirely too much!". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Literature | De Trop (French). Supererogatory, more than enough. Rien de trop, let nothing be in excess. Preserve in all things the golden mean. Also "one too many," in the way; when a person's presence is not wished for, that person is de trop. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: De TropSynonyms: a bit much(p) (adj), too much(p) (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Redundancy | Superfluous, unnecessary, needless, supervacaneous, uncalled for, to spare, in excess; over and above; (remainder); de trop; adscititious; (additional); supernumerary; (reserve); on one's hands, spare, duplicate, supererogatory, expletive; un peu fort. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: De Trop |
| Specialty definitions using "de trop": redundant. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "De Trop" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (too much). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Un homme de trop (1967) Vladimir de trop (1996) Un enfant de trop (1995) Une image de trop (1991) Un amour de trop (1989) | |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | REDUNDANT, adj. Superfluous; needless; de trop. The Sultan said: "There's evidence abundant To prove this unbelieving dog redundant." To whom the Grand Vizier, with mien impressive, Replied: "His head, at least, appears excessive." Habeeb Suleiman Mr. Debs is a redundant citizen. Theodore Roosevelt |
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| Language | Translations for "de trop"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i tepruar (dispensable, disproportionate, exaggerated, excess, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, fabulous, far gone, fulsome, heavy, immoderate, inordinate, lavish, over, profuse, redundant, undue, unreasonable), i padobishëm (bootless, fruitless, good for nothing, ineffective, ineffectual, inutile, kill time, marginal, naught, needless, ne'er do well, no earthly use, nugatory, otiose, riffraff, useless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | нежелан (involuntary, unacceptable, unasked, unbidden, uncalled for, undesirable, unwanted, unwelcome, unwished, wrong), излишен (excrescent, expletive, needless, otiose, pleonastic, redundant, spare, superabundant, superfluous, supernumerary, supervacaneous, surplus, unnecessary, unwanted, waste). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eday optray излишний (excessive, needless, over, pleonastic, redundant, superabundant, superfluous, supervacaneous, unnecessary). (various references) u prenešenom smislu. (various references) istenmedik, fazlalık (bulge, excess, excrescence, glut, margin, more, overage, overbalance, overplus, oversupply, plus, residuary, super, superfluities, superfluity, supernumerary, surplus, surplusage), fazla (big, excess, excessive, extra, in excess of, much, out, over, rising of, spare, super-, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus, thick, too, unneedful). (various references) vị ngữ thừa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: deport, ported, redtop. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-o-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: depot, doper, doter, dropt, opted, pedro, pored, repot, roped, toped, toper, trode, trope. | |
-2 letters: doer, dope, dore, dorp, dote, drop, oped, pert, poet, pore, port, prod, redo, repo, rode, rope, rote, toed, tope, tore, trod, trop. | |
-3 letters: doe, dor, dot, ode, ope, opt, ore, ort, ped, per, pet, pod, pot, pro, red, rep. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-o-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: adopter, deports, diopter, dioptre, droplet, peridot, portend, proteid, protend, readopt, redtops, sported, torpedo, tromped, trooped, trouped. | |
+2 letters: adopters, depictor, deported, deportee, diopters, dioptres, dipteron, doorstep, dopester, droplets, exported, imported, operated, parroted, pastored, peridots, piedfort, portaged, portaled, portends, portered, postured, pothered, potsherd, pottered, preadopt, predator, probated, profited, promoted, prompted, pronated, prorated, proteide, proteids, protends, protrude, proudest, pteropod, readopts, reported, repotted, riposted, sprouted, stropped, tapadero, teardrop, tetrapod, theropod, topsider, torpedos, trophied, uprooted. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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