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adjective
1.
More than is needed, desired, or required.  Synonyms: excess, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus.  "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"
2.
Added to a regular schedule.  Synonym: special.  "Put on special buses for the big game"
3.
Further or added.  Synonym: additional.  "Need extra help" , "An extra pair of shoes"
adverb
1.
Unusually or exceptionally.
noun
(pl. extras)
1.
A minor actor in crowd scenes.  Synonyms: spear carrier, supernumerary.
2.
An additional edition of a newspaper (usually to report a crisis).
3.
Something additional of the same kind.  Synonym: duplicate.



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... how then be acquainted with that which has no affinity with ourselves? A man born blind, has only the use of four senses; he has not the right, however, of assuming it as a fact, there does not exist an extra sense for others; but he may very reasonably, and with great truth aver, that he has no idea of the effects which would be produced in him, by the sense which he lacks: notwithstanding, if this blind man was surrounded by other men, whose birth had also left them devoid or sight, might he ...
— The System of Nature, Vol. 2 • Baron D'Holbach

... we had two extra fiddlers. They relieved the other two at midnight, and then we danced till daybreak. Oh! such a glorious time. Next year, when I heard that a part of Table Rock had tumbled into the horrid river, ...
— Round the Block • John Bell Bouton

... Bluff and back the bluff. But a handful of cavalry is no backing to any bluff. The older settlers shook their heads; the more timorous dared to hope; even old Roiheim, who would make profit by the adjacency of soldiers, would willingly have foregone the extra trade. Rube and Seth offered no comment outside their own house; but their opinion was ...
— The Watchers of the Plains - A Tale of the Western Prairies • Ridgewell Cullum

... well as to give my fellow sufferers the benefit of my experience I wish to say, that immediately after receiving your courteous reply to my letter, describing the difficulty in breathing after any extra exertion, I began taking Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, and before I had finished the first bottle I ...
— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce

... as I have told you, was made a deputy in 1888. After taking his seat he was made a member of the Committee which has been conducting an "extra-parliamentary enquiry" on the subject of co-operative societies among working-men for work and for production, and with the question of contracts between employers and working-men for participation in the profits ...
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