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Supervacaneous (adj) means (formal) Extra and not actually needed.

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(formal) Extra and not actually needed.

"‘It became all the more important for me to get out because my son Foster, aged now fifteen, is only ten points below genius and this genius would have been unavailing and supervacaneous, in other words wasted, behind the iron curtain.’" — Nancy Mitford, Don't Tell Alfred (1960)

"It is an awful thing to find your efforts supervacaneous when you are so far away from home and friends, sympathy, and help." — George Wharton James, Our American Woodlands (1915)

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