Supernumerary

Definition: Supernumerary

Supernumerary

Adjective

1. More than is needed, desired, or required; "trying to lose excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary ornamentation"; "it was supererogatory of her to gloat"; "delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words"; "extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts"; "surplus cheese distributed to the needy".

Noun

1. A minor actor in crowd scenes.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "supernumerary" was first used: 1605. (references)

Fine Arts

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

Synonyms: Supernumerary

Adjunct

Noun: adjunct; addition, additament; additum, affix, appelidage, annexe, annex; augment, augmentation; increment, reinforcement, supernumerary, accessory, item; garnish, sauce; accompaniment; adjective, addendum; complement, supplement; continuation.

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.

Store

Adjective: stored; Verb:; in store, in reserve, in ordinary; spare, supernumerary.

The Drama

Actor, thespian, player; method actor; stage player, strolling player; stager, performer; mime, mimer; artists; comedian, tragedian; tragedienne, Roscius; star, movie star, star of stage and screen, superstar, idol, sex symbol; supporting actor, supporting cast; ham, hamfatter; masker. pantomimist, clown harlequin, buffo, buffoon, farceur, grimacer, pantaloon, columbine; punchinello; pulcinello, pulcinella; extra, bit-player, walk-on role, cameo appearance; mute, figurante, general utility; super, supernumerary.

Crosswords: Supernumerary

Expressions using "supernumerary": supernumerary nato civilian personnel ♦ supernumerary rainbow. Additional references.

Albanian

zëvendësues i përkohshëm (supply), i tepërt (excess, excessive, excrescent, last, odd, over, overabundant, redundant, spare, superfluous, unnecessary, walloping, waste), i tepërm (excess, excessive, excrescent, last, odd, overabundant, redundant, spare, superfluous, walloping, waste), figurant (super). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مستخدم بلا أجر, ‏زائد عن العدد المكرر, ‏زائد (excessive, excrescent, plus, redundant, superfluous, swollen), ‏الكمبرس, ‏أكثر عددا. (various references)

Bulgarian 

статист (extra, mute, super, walk on, walking gentleman), свръхщатен служител, временен заместник (stopgap, warming pan), ненужен (needless, trashy, uncalled for, unnecessary), извънреден (emergency, extra, occasional, over, relief, special, supplemental), извънщатен, излишен (de trop, excrescent, expletive, needless, otiose, pleonastic, redundant, spare, superabundant, superfluous, supervacaneous, surplus, unnecessary, unwanted, waste). (various references)

Chinese 

超编人员. (various references)

Czech

přespoèetný. (various references)

Danish

hyperonychi (hyperonychia, hyperonychosis, supernumerary nails), dens supernumerarius (supernumerary tooth). (various references)

Dutch

surnumerair. (various references)

Farsi 

فوق عددی , زیاده , اضافی (Additional, Extension, Extra, Further, Overflow, Plus, Supplementary), بیش ازاندازه عادی . (various references)

Finnish

ylimäärä, liikamäärä (excess, surplus). (various references)

French

surnuméraire, figurant (super). (various references)

German

überzählig (odd, spare, superfluous, surplus). (various references)

Greek 

κομπάρσοσ (walkon), υπεράριθμοσ (redundant). (various references)

Hebrew 

מוסף (additional, supplement, supplementary), � וסף (accessive, additional, another, extra, further, more, other, spare, supplementary). (various references)

Hungarian

statiszta (dummy, figurant, mute, procession man, super), létszám feletti (super). (various references)

Indonesian

figuran (walk on). (various references)

Italian

soprannumerario. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

冗�"� (superfluous, useless workers). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

じょうい�" (crew, Lords, repeatedrhymes, Senate, superfluous, surplus people, Upper House, useless workers). (various references)

Manx

fer feayree (extra hand), fer erskyn yn earroo. (various references)

Pig Latin

upernumerarysay

Portuguese

supranumerário, supernumerário, supérfluo (excrescent, needless, overabundant, overflowing, redundant, supererogatory, superfluous, supervacaneous, unnecessary, unwanted), para além do número, excedente (excess, odd, over, overbalance, overmeasure, overplus, overrun, surplus), ator supernumerário, ator extra. (various references)

Romanian

supranumerar, suplimentar (accessary, additional, adjective, adscititious, auxiliary, circumstantial, extra, further, incidental, odd, supplemental, supplementary), figurant (cipher, dummy, extra, mute, super). (various references)

Russian 

статист (walking gentleman, walk-on), сверхштатный работник, внештатный (free-lance). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

statista (extra), prekobrojni službenik, prekobrojan (overabundant). (various references)

Spanish

supernumerario. (various references)

Swedish

övertalig (odd), statist (extra, mute, walker on). (various references)

Turkish

ihtiyaç fazlası işçi, figüran (extra, figurant, figurante, super, walk on, walker on, walking gentleman, walking lady), fazlalık (bulge, de trop, excess, excrescence, glut, margin, more, overage, overbalance, overplus, oversupply, plus, residuary, super, superfluities, superfluity, surplus, surplusage), fazla (big, de trop, excess, excessive, extra, in excess of, much, out, over, rising of, spare, super-, superfluous, surplus, thick, too, unneedful), ekstra (additional, extra). (various references)

Ukrainian

статист (figurant, mute, super, walk on), понадштатний працівник, понадштатний, додатковий (accessary, accessory, accidental, additional, adventitious, appendant, appendical, auxiliary, collateral, complementary, expletive, extra, further, more, new, novel, obverse, odd, other, plus, pony, second, secondary, supplemental, supplementary, surplus). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người không quan trọng (light-weight), dư thừa. (various references)

super numerum. (various references)

supernumarius. (various references)

Misspellings

"Supernumerary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: supernumrary. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-4 letters: empyreans.

-5 letters: aneurysm, empyrean, eremurus, manurers, measurer, numerary, prenames, presumer, repursue, spearmen, spermary, superman, supermen, supremer, surnamer, yearners.