Extra vs. Super — What's the Difference?

More than or beyond what is usual, normal, expected, or necessary

An article or a product of superior size, quality, or grade.

Subject to an additional charge

A superintendent in an apartment or office building.

Something more than is usual or necessary

A supernumerary.

Something, such as an accessory on a motor vehicle, for which an additional charge is made.

Very large, great, or extreme

A special edition of a newspaper.

Excellent; first-rate

A performer hired to play a minor part, as in a crowd scene in a film.

Especially; extremely

To an exceptional extent or degree; unusually

Of excellent quality, superfine.

(not comparable) Beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; extraneous; additional; supernumerary.

Better than average, better than usual; wonderful.

Extraordinarily good; superior.

(informal) Very; extremely (used like the prefix super-).

Over the top; going beyond what is normal or appropriate, often in a dramatic manner.

(beekeeping) superhive

Denotes more.

, especially, a building's resident manager sometimes clarified as “building super”.

(informal) To an extraordinary degree.

(neologism) nodot=1, especially as distinguished from bright.

Something additional, such as an item above and beyond the ordinary school curriculum, or added to the usual charge on a bill.

; (theatre) specifically, a supernumerary actor.

An extra edition of a newspaper, which is printed outside of the normal printing cycle, for example to report an important late-breaking event.

(beekeeping) superhive

(cricket) A run scored without the ball having hit the striker's bat - a wide, bye, leg bye or no ball.

(television) superimpose

(acting) A supernumerary or walk-on in a film or play.

A contraction of Supernumerary, in sense 2.

(slang) The state or trait of being over the top, of behaving in an overly dramatic manner.

A caretaker for an apartment house; represents the owner as janitor and rent collector

Something of an extra quality or grade. en

Of the highest quality;

Beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; additional; supernumerary; also, extraordinarily good; superior; as, extra work; extra pay.

Including more than a specified category;

Something in addition to what is due, expected, or customary; esp., an added charge or fee, or something for which an additional charge is made; as, at some hotels air conditioning is an extra.

Extremely large;

An edition of a newspaper issued at a time other than the regular one.

To an extreme degree;

A run, as from a bye, credited to the general score but not made from a hit.

Something of an extra quality or grade.

A minor actor in crowd scenes

An additional edition of a newspaper (usually to report a crisis)

Something additional of the same kind;

Further or added;

More than is needed, desired, or required;

Added to a regular schedule;

Unusually or exceptionally;