Found 2 items, similar to redundant.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: redundant redundant adj 1: 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” [syn: excess, extra, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus] 2: 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” [syn: wordy] 3: 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 [syn: pleonastic, tautologic, tautological]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Redundant Redundant \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. [1913 Webster] Notwithstanding the redundant oil in fishes, they do not increase fat so much as flesh. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster] 2. Using more worrds or images than are necessary or useful; pleonastic. [1913 Webster] Where an suthor is redundant, mark those paragraphs to be retrenched. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster] Syn: Superfluous; superabundant; excessive; exuberant; overflowing; plentiful; copious. [1913 Webster]