surfeitnoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/ˈsɜː.fɪt/us/ˈsɝː.fɪt/formalan amount that is too large, or is more than is needed:
The country has a surfeit of cheap labour.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Too much and unnecessary
- a sledgehammer to crack a nut idiom
- avalanche
- be up to your neck (in sth) idiom
- bellyful
- binge
- carry/take coals to Newcastle idiom
- hyper
- immoderate
- inessential
- insatiable
- lousy
- play gooseberry idiom
- plenty
- plethora
- proliferate
- redundancy
- sock
- supplementary
- surplus
- weigh
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