Definition for Surplusage:

• Surplus; excess; overplus; as, surplusage of grain or goods beyond what is wanted.

Synonyms for Surplusage:

• n.

  •excess (noun)
  • excess.
  •overabundance (noun)
  • pro-fusions,
  • over kill,
  • over-flow,
  • embarrassment of rich,
  • over-flows,
  • over abundances,
  • over-abundances,
  • over flows,
  • super abundance,
  • over-kills,
  • pro-fusion,
  • pro fusions,
  • super abundances,
  • over-kill,
  • over kills,
  • overkills,
  • embarrassment riches,
  • embarrassment rich,
  • over flow,
  • super-abundance,
  • super-abundances,
  • over abundance,
  • too muches,
  • pro fusion,
  • nimieties.
  •overstock (noun)
  • over-stock,
  • over stock,
  • over-stocks,
  • over stocks.
  •oversupply (noun)
  • over-supplies,
  • over-supply.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • overflow.
  •
  • fat.
  •
  • overrun.
  •Other relevant words:
  • verbiage,
  • spare,
  • tautology,
  • plus,
  • prolixity,
  • rest,
  • Overset,
  • balance,
  • lagniappe,
  • inordinateness,
  • surfeit,
  • pleonasm,
  • excessiveness,
  • too much,
  • remainder,
  • redundance,
  • dividend,
  • periphrasis,
  • bonus,
  • extra,
  • overplus,
  • gratuity,
  • leftover,
  • superfluity,
  • tip,
  • overdose,
  • circumlocution,
  • Overmeasure,
  • residue,
  • redundancy,
  • bellyful,
  • margin,
  • glut,
  • verbosity,
  • plethora.

Antonyms for Surplusage:

• n.

  • surplus
    core, need, base.
  • Other antonyms:
    compression, scarcity, conciseness, shortness, lack, directness, deficit, undersupply, insufficiency, want, condensation, deficiency, dearth, succinctness, terseness, brevity, compactness, plainness.

Surplusage Sentence Examples:

• " If so, there are plenty in this city of cut - throats to let out the surplusage," returned Marmaduke; and he briefly related his adventure to Nicholas.

• There are three Photographs which I reckon fairly like; these are properly what I had to send you today, - little thinking that so much surplusage would accumulate about them; to which I now at once put an end.