Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Surfeit |
SurfeitNoun1. The state of being more than full. 2. The quality of being so overabundant that prices fall. 3. Eating until excessively full. Verb1. Supply or feed to surfeit. 2. Indulge to satiety, as of one's appetite. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "surfeit" was first used: sometime in the early 14th century. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | Gr. Brit. Afterdamp or chokedamp; or pressure exercised by a pent-up gas resulting in its escape with or without rupture of strata. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: SurfeitSynonyms: excess (n), glut (n), overabundance (n), oversupply (n), repletion (n), cloy (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Redundancy | Noun: redundancy, redundance; too much, too many; superabundance, superfluity, superfluence, saturation; nimiety, transcendency, exuberance, profuseness; profusion; (plenty); repletion, enough in all conscience, satis superque, lion's share; more than enough; plethora, engorgement, congestion, load, surfeit, sickener; turgescence; (expansion); overdose, overmeasure, oversupply, overflow; inundation; (water); avalanche. |
Satiety | Verb: sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate; cloy, quench, slake, pall, glut., gorge, surfeit; bore; (weary); tire; (fatigue); spoil. |
Noun: satiety, satisfaction, saturation, repletion, glut, surfeit; cloyment, satiation; weariness. spoiled child; enfant gete, enfant terrible; too much of a good thing, toujours perdrix; crambe repetita. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Surfeit |
| English words defined with "surfeit": blase ♦ cloy ♦ disgusted ♦ fed up ♦ jaded ♦ Overfullness ♦ pall ♦ sick, sick of, Surcloy, Surfeiting ♦ tired of ♦ worldly. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "surfeit": Surfeit Water, sycophant ♦ Zeuxis. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Heraclitus | God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger. |
Theognis | Surfeit begets insolence, when prosperity comes to a bad man. |
William Shakespeare | They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SYCOPHANT, n. One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor. As the lean leech, its victim found, is pleased To fix itself upon a part diseased Till, its black hide distended with bad blood, It drops to die of surfeit in the mud, So the base sycophant with joy descries His neighbor's weak spot and his mouth applies, Gorges and prospers like the leech, although, Unlike that reptile, he will not let go. Gelasma, if it paid you to devote Your talent to the service of a goat, Showing by forceful logic that its beard Is more than Aaron's fit to be revered; If to the task of honoring its smell Profit had prompted you, and love as well, The world would benefit at last by you And wealthy malefactors weep anew -- Your favor for a moment's space denied And to the nobler object turned aside. Is't not enough that thrifty millionaires Who loot in freight and spoliate in fares, Or, cursed with consciences that bid them fly To safer villainies of darker dye, Forswearing robbery and fain, instead, To steal (they call it "cornering") our bread May see you groveling their boots to lick And begging for the favor of a kick? Still must you follow to the bitter end Your sycophantic disposition's trend, And in your eagerness to please the rich Hunt hungry sinners to their final ditch? In Morgan's praise you smite the sounding wire, And sing hosannas to great Havemeyher! What's Satan done that him you should eschew? He too is reeking rich -- deducting you. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Surfeit" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.25% of the time. "Surfeit" is used about 57 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.25% | 56 | 45,296 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.75% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 57 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "surfeit": have a surfeit of ♦ surfeit oneself. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "surfeit": surfeit-swell, Surfeit-water. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
surfeit | 9 |
cover slip surfeit | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "surfeit"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | velje (satiety), vel (cloy, cover, jade, sail, satiate, shroud, veil, veiling), tepri (excess, exuberance, exuberancy, glut, overplus, redundance, redundancy, superabundance, superfluity), ngopje (glut, impregnation, repletion, satiation, satiety, saturation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مقدار كبير (bucket, mass, ream, sight, swag), تخمة (glut, repletion, satiation, satiety), سمن (batten, fatten, flesh, gain weight, plumb out, plump, portliness, stuff, thicken), إفراط (excess, exorbitance, extreme, intemperance, riot), إتخم (cloy, cram, glut, gorge, overfeed, sate, satiate, saturate, stoke, stuff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | втръсване, натъпквам се (overfeed, pile, stodge), преяждам (make a pig of oneself, overeat, overfeed), прекаленост (exorbitance, exorbitancy, extravagance, immoderation), излишество (plethora, redundance, redundancy, superfluity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | přesycení (glut, satiation, satiety), přemíra (excess, exuberance, exuberancy), přejíst, přecpání. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پرخوردن (Glut, Gorge, Overeat), زیاده روی (Extravagance, Indulgence, Intemperance, Ultraism), امتلاء . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kyllästymys (satiety). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | satiété, excès (surplus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | überdruss (antipathy, aversion, satiety, tiredness, weariness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κόροσ (cloyngness, glut, repletion, saturation), χορτασμόσ (satiation, satiety), αδηφαγώ, αδηφαγία (ravenousness, voraciousness, voracity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לפטם (cram, fatten, plump, stuff), ל"לעיט (cram, fatten, force feed, gorge, overfeed, stuff), ל'"וש (heap, overcrowd, pile), שובע (plenty, repletion, satiation, satiety, satisfaction), שפע (abundance, affluence, affluency, excess, exuberance, glut, luxuriance, opulence, plenty, plethora, profusion, riches, superabundance, wealth), עו"ף (balance, excess, left over, plus, redundance, redundancy, superfluous, surplus), זליל" (gluttony), זרא (stomachful), "צפ" (flood, inundation, overflow), 'ו"ש (abundance, affluence, glut, pile, plenitude, profusion, redundance, redundancy, repletion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | csömör (cloying, disgust, heaving, nausea, rising of the stomach). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | saziet (fill, glut, repletion, satiety), indigestione (indigestion), eccesso (excess, glut, immoderation, surplus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 飽満 (satiety), 暴食 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ぼうしょく (insatiability, protection against corrosion, spinning and weaving), ほうま" (corpulent, indiscretion, laxity, looseness, plump, satiety, stout, voluptuous, whimsy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | geashnaght. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urfeitsay superabundância (overage, overflow, overgrowth, redundance, redundancy, satiety, superfluity, surplusage), saciedade (glut, repletion, tedium), indigestão (dyspepsia, indigestion), enfartamento (infarction), abastança (abundance). (various references) suprasatura (have a surfeit of, supersaturate), supraabundenţã (excess, glut, plethora, superabundance), prisos (abundance, overflow, overplus, plenty, superfluity, surplus), exces (abuse, excess, intemperance, nimiety, redundance, redundancy, riot, riotousness, superfluity, transgression, violence), îndopa (cram, fatten, gorge, guzzle, overfeed, pamper, stuff), îmbuibare (gorge, gorging), îmbuiba (cloy, cram, gorge, stuff, swill). (various references) объедаться (engorge, gormandize, overeat, overfeed, stuff), перекармливать (overfeed). (various references) tairbhein. (various references) prejesti. (various references) superabundancia (glut, superabundance), saciedad (glut, repletion, satiation, satiety), saciar (assuage, glut, Pall, sate, satiate), hartura (satiation, satiety), hartar (feed up, glut, satiate, saturate, sicken), exceso (excess, extra, glut, overage, overplus, redundance, redundancy, surplus), empacho (embarrassment, hindrance, indigestion). (various references) övermått (excess, exorbitance, exorbitancy, exuberance, over abundance, plethora), övermättnad (glut, repletion). (various references) ให้"ื่มหรือกินเกินขนา", สิ่งที่มากเกินไป, การ"ื่มหรือกินเกินขนา", ความไม่สบายเนื่องจากการ"ื่มหรือกินเกินขนา", "ื่มหรือกินเกินขนา". (various references) tıka basa yedirmek (cram), bıkkınlık (bellyful, boredom, disgust, ennui, tedium, tiredness, weariness, willies), şişkinlik (bulge, inflation, intumescence, puffiness, swell, swelling, tumescence, tumidity, turgidness), aşırı yemek, aşırı yeme. (various references) надмірність (excess, excessiveness, exorbitance, exorbitancy, extreme, nimiety, plethora, profusion, rampancy, redundance, redundancy), надлишок (excess, glut, nimiety, over, overage, overbalance, overflow, overmeasure, overplus, redundance, redundancy, spillover, superfluity), пересичувати (cloy, sate, satiate, supersaturate), переїдати (overeat, overfeed), переїдання, перегодовувати. (various references) syrffedu, syrffed, diflasu (bore, disgust, weary), alaru (loath), alar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | facere. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | surfet. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "surfeit": surfeited, surfeiter, surfeiters, surfeiting, surfeits. (additional references) | |
| |
"Surfeit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: durafelt, Safeit, serfeit, surete, surfcit, surfeil, surfet, surfiet, surfit, Truefitt. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "surfeit" (pronounced ser"fut) |
| 3 | -f u t | buffet, forfeit, nonprofit, profit, prophet. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: fustier. | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-i-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: fruits, furies, refits, resift, rifest, sifter, strife, suiter. | |
-2 letters: etuis, feist, fetus, fires, first, frets, fries, frise, frits, fruit, refit, reifs, rifts, rites, serif, sieur, suite, tiers, tires, tries, trues, turfs, uteri. | |
-3 letters: efts, erst, etui, fets, feus, fire, firs, fist, fits, fret, frit, furs, fuse, ires, refs, reft, reif, reis, rest, rets. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-i-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: fixtures, fremitus, fruiters, furriest, furziest, outfires, stuffier, surfeits, surfiest, turfiest. | |
+2 letters: brutifies, filatures, fluorites, frouziest, fruitages, fruitiest, fruitless, fruitlets, frumpiest, fruticose, furmeties, furmities, gruffiest, interfuse, justifier, putrefies, reoutfits, ruffliest, scurfiest, surfeited, surfeiter, thurifers, unfairest, uplifters. | |
+3 letters: bifurcates, butterfish, confitures, filibuster, flustering, fortitudes, fortuities, fremituses, fructifies, fruitcakes, fruiterers, fruitiness, frumenties, fulgurites, fumatories, fumitories, furmenties, furnitures, futurities, infuriates, interfused, interfuses, justifiers, misfortune, outfigures, outfitters, restuffing, scruffiest, surfeiters, surfeiting, trisulfide, uniformest. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Translations: Ancient 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
