superfluous
soo-PUR-floo-usadjMeaning more than is needed; unnecessary
Memory hook SUPER-FLU: OVERflowing, more than needed. The snowman already has a carrot nose, but Pip keeps adding more until there are five: four of them are superfluous.
With the sun shining all day, the umbrella turned out to be superfluous.
In context The editor cut every superfluous word from the article, so that the final version said just as much in half the space.
Similar unnecessary, needless, extra, redundant
Opposite necessary, essential, needed
From Latin superfluus, “overflowing”: super (over) + fluere (to flow).