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.
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Notwithstanding the redundant oil in fishes, they do
not increase fat so much as flesh. --Arbuthnot.
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2. Using more worrds or images than are necessary or useful;
pleonastic.
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Where an suthor is redundant, mark those paragraphs
to be retrenched. --I. Watts.
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Syn: Superfluous; superabundant; excessive; exuberant;
overflowing; plentiful; copious.
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