Difference between Extra and Additional

What is the difference between Extra and Additional?

Extra as an adjective is beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; additional; supernumerary. while Additional as an adjective is supplemental or added to.

Extra

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A run scored without the ball having hit the striker's bat - a wide, bye, leg bye or no ball; in Australia referred to as a sundry an extra edition of a newspaper, which is printed outside of the normal printing cycle

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: To an extraordinary degree.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; additional; supernumerary. Extraordinarily good; superior; as extra work, extra pay.

Example sentence: Pressure can make a diamond. Pressure makes me play better because I don't want to let my teammates or my fans down, and that makes me play extra hard.

Additional

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Supplemental or added to.

Example sentence: Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

We hope you now know whether to use Extra or Additional in your sentence.

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