Word.ws English Dictionary

superfluous man

superfluous man noun: a kind of character derived from the Byronic hero and associated with mid-1800s Russian literature: a man, usually privileged and capable, who flaunts or disregards social norms and exhibits cynicism, self-interest, and existential boredom.

Noun

superfluous man (plural superfluous men)

  1. A kind of character derived from the Byronic hero and associated with mid-1800s Russian literature: a man, usually privileged and capable, who flaunts or disregards social norms and exhibits cynicism, self-interest, and existential boredom.

Forms of superfluous man

pluralsuperfluous men

Questions about superfluous man

What does superfluous man mean?
Superfluous man means a kind of character derived from the Byronic hero and associated with mid-1800s Russian literature: a man, usually privileged and capable, who flaunts or disregards social norms and exhibits cynicism, self-interest, and existential boredom.
What part of speech is superfluous man?
Superfluous man is a noun.
What is the plural of superfluous man?
The plural of superfluous man is superfluous men.

Words near superfluous man in the dictionary

  1. superfluorescences
  2. superfluorescent
  3. superfluous
  4. superfluous interval
  5. superfluous intervals
  6. superfluous man
  7. superfluous men
  8. superfluousities
  9. superfluousity
  10. superfluously
  11. superfluousness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: superfluous man (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “superfluous man.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/superfluous_man. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.