Infinitive complement

• mention: It seems superfluous to mention it, but don't go swimming if you've been drinking alcohol.

Modifying Another Word

• somewhat: There's also a part about the weapons of the Waffen-SS which feels somewhat superfluous.

• largely: One less concerned with the sell would have dispensed with a largely superfluous chapter on Easter 1916.

• almost: To the dozen medics around the table, the point that the doctor was making seemed almost superfluous.

• completely: So coupled with the word technology it is completely superfluous; rather like saying experiment and science or numbers and maths.

• rather: The second warning is, however, rather superfluous in my view.

• totally: These totally superfluous police horsemen were never in the processions in earlier years.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• render: The existence of the human data, however, renders the animal data superfluous.

• make: The point here is that the Spirit does not make study superfluous.

Modifies a noun

• breath: Notes: ' What cracker is this name, that deafs our ears / With this abundance of superfluous breath?

• word: The Times ' subs obviously missed the three superfluous words in there.

• injury: Second, it is prohibited to cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering.

• element: Your own kernel lacks superfluous elements and is therefore faster and more stable.

• information: Do not answer a question that was not asked or provide superfluous information.

• detail: Most CVs start with these but take care to avoid superfluous details, such as religious affiliation, children's names and so on.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: Note: my exit 0 may seem superfluous here.

• render: They feel they cannot cope and they feel rendered superfluous.

• deem: It works by eliminating information from the file that the program deems superfluous.

• become: Once the glue is cured, the caustic soda becomes superfluous.

• feel: There's also a part about the weapons of the Waffen-SS which feels somewhat superfluous.