remainder

Roget category 40

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.3. Quantity
›› 1.3.3. Conjunctive quantity

#40. [Thing remaining.] Remainder

noun

remainder, residue — remains, remanent, remnant, rest, relic — leavings, heeltap^†, odds and ends, cheesepairings^†, candle ends, orts^† — residuum — dregs etc. (dirt) 653 — refuse etc. (useless) 645 — stubble, result, educt^† — fag-end — ruins, wreck, skeleton.
, stump — alluvium.
surplus, overplus^†, excess — balance, complement — superplus^†, surplusage^† — superfluity etc. (redundancy) 641 — survival, survivance^†.

verb

remain — be left etc. adj. — exceed, survive — leave.

adjective

remaining, left — left behind, left over — residual, residuary — over, odd — unconsumed, sedimentary — surviving — net — exceeding, over and above — outlying, outstanding — cast off etc. 782 — superfluous etc. (redundant) 641.

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