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/suːpəɹɛˈɹɒɡətəɹi/ · adjective
Pertaining to supererogation; doing more than is required..
They passed into the ancient shipyard which lay beyond, and which was now a mere vague, grass-grown approach to the waterside, bestrewn with a few remnants of supererogatory timber.
"In now you come," she ordered, "and we make love." That seemed supererogatory to David Jones, who, under the gaze of the painted deer, got in there and did as he was told.
It is, for example, not clear whether “love thy enemy” is a precept or a supererogatory counsel.
It [capitalism] increasingly deploys not just bureaucratic repression but an invested, overt, supererogatory sadism.
Use supererogatory when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Supererogatory means Pertaining to supererogation; doing more than is required..
Common synonyms include superfluous, redundant, excess, surplus.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
They passed into the ancient shipyard which lay beyond, and which was now a mere vague, grass-grown approach to the waterside, bestrewn with a few remnants of supererogatory timber.
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