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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "redundant":
abundant, battological, circumlocutory, copious, de trop, diffuse,
diffusive, dispensable, duplicative, echoic, echoing, effusive,
excess, excessive, expendable, expletive, extra, extravagant,
exuberant, fecund, formless, gratuitous, gushing, gushy, imitative,
in excess, inessential, iterative, long-winded, needless,
nonessential, overflowing, parrotlike, pleonastic, prodigal,
productive, profuse, profusive, prolific, prolix, recapitulative,
reduplicative, reechoing, reiterant, reiterative, repeating,
repetitional, repetitionary, repetitious, repetitive, roundabout,
spare, superabundant, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary,
surplus, tautologic, tautological, tautologous, teeming, to spare,
uncalled-for, unessential, unnecessary, unneeded, unwanted,
verbose, windy, wordy
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
REDUNDANT, adj. Superfluous; needless; _de trop_.
The Sultan said: "There's evidence abundant
To prove this unbelieving dog redundant."
To whom the Grand Vizier, with mien impressive,
Replied: "His head, at least, appears excessive."
Habeeb Suleiman
Mr. Debs is a redundant citizen.
Theodore Roosevelt
THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)
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