About The Word Redundant
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Redundant
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What's The Definition Of Redundant?
[adj] repetition of same sense in different words; "`a true fact' and `a free gift' are pleonastic expressions"; "the phrase `a beginner who has just started' is tautological"; "at the risk of being redundant I return to my original proposition"- J.B.Conant
[adj] use of more words than required to express an idea; "a wordy gossipy account of a simple incident"; "a redundant text crammed with amplifications of the obvious" [adj] more than is needed, desired, or required; "trying to lose excess weight"; "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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Redundant: excess | extra | pleonastic | prolix | spare | supererogatory | superfluous | supernumerary | surplus | tautologic | tautological | unnecessary | unneeded | wordy Related Terms | Find terms related to Redundant: See Also | Redundant In Webster's Dictionary \Re*dun"dant\ (-dant), a. [L. redundans, -antis, p.
pr. of redundare: cf. F. redondant. See {Redound}.]
1. Exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant;
exuberant; as, a redundant quantity of bile or food.
Notwithstanding the redundant oil in fishes, they do
not increase fat so much as flesh. --Arbuthnot.
2. Using more worrds or images than are necessary or useful;
pleonastic.
Where an suthor is redundant, mark those paragraphs
to be retrenched. --I. Watts.
Syn: Superfluous; superabundant; excessive; exuberant;
overflowing; plentiful; copious.
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