extra
adjective
1.
- “called for additional troops”
- “need extra help”
- “an extra pair of shoes”
- “I have no other shoes”
- “there are other possibilities”
2.
more than is needed, desired, or required
- “trying to lose excess weight”
- “found some extra change lying on the dresser”
- “yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant”
- “skills made redundant by technological advance”
- “sleeping in the spare room”
- “supernumerary ornamentation”
- “it was supererogatory of her to gloat”
- “delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words”
- “extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts”
- “surplus cheese distributed to the needy”
3.
- “a special holiday flight”
- “put on special buses for the big game”
noun
1.
3.
adverb
1.
Origin
Abbreviation of extraordinary.
Phrases
- ab extra
- extra attacker
- extra base hit
- extra cover
- extra credit
- extra dictionem
- extra ends
- extra extra extra large
- extra extra extra small
- Romsey Extra
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