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De Trop

Definition: De Trop

De Trop

Adjective

1. 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.
 


Specialty Definition: De Trop

DomainDefinition

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: De Trop

Synonyms: a bit much(p) (adj), too much(p) (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: De Trop

ContextSynonyms 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.

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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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Modern Usage: De Trop

DomainUsage

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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Commercial Usage: De Trop

DomainTitle

Books

  • On a deux yeux de trop : avec les réfugiés rwandais, Goma, Zaïre, 1994 (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Non-Fiction Usage: De Trop

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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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Modern Translation: De Trop

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

   

Russian 

  

излишний (excessive, needless, over, pleonastic, redundant, superabundant, superfluous, supervacaneous, unnecessary). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

u prenešenom smislu. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Vietnamese 

  

vị ngữ thừa. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: De Trop

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

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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