redundant
1. more than is needed, desired, or required (Freq. 2)
- 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
• Similar to:
unnecessary, unneeded
• Derivationally related forms:
supernumerary (for: supernumerary), superfluity (for: superfluous), redundance, redundancy
2. 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
• Similar to:
prolix
• Derivationally related forms:
tautology (for: tautological), tautology (for: tautologic), redundancy, pleonasm (for: pleonastic)
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