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Redundant   /rɪdˈəndənt/   Listen
Redundant

adjective
1.
More than is needed, desired, or required.  Synonyms: excess, extra, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus.  "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"
2.
Repetition of same sense in different words.  Synonyms: pleonastic, tautologic, tautological.  "The phrase 'a beginner who has just started' is tautological" , "At the risk of being redundant I return to my original proposition"






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"Redundant" Quotes from Famous Books



... only by transfer, and that for five years at least no new licences should be granted. The argument so often heard against stopping licences is that then more illicit drinking will ensue, but this does not convince me that the redundant licences should ...
— The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent • S.M. Hussey

... King Piko, at peace with King Hello, and well content with, the tranquillity of the times, little relished the idea of picking a quarrel with his neighbor, and running its risks, in order to phlebotomize his redundant population. ...
— Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) • Herman Melville

... Redeemer Elacxetinto. Redemption elacxeto. Redness rugxeco. Redouble duobligi. Redoubt (fortification) reduto. Redoubtable timinda. Redress (amend) rebonigi, ripari. Reduce (to powder) pisti. Reduce (dissolve) solvi. Reduce malpliigi. Redundance suficxego. Redundant suficxega. Reed kano. Reef (rocks) rifo. Reel (stagger) sxanceligxi. Re-enter reeniri. Re-establish reigi. Refection mangxeto. Refectory mangxejo. Refer to turni sin. Referring to rilate al. Refine ...
— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes

... chief merits of a definition is to be terse, and this definition is redundant, since what has three sides cannot but ...
— Deductive Logic • St. George Stock

... distinctions rudely marked out by the language of familiar life, with little or no attempt to penetrate, by philosophic analysis, to the rationale even of those common distinctions. Such an analysis, however superficially conducted, would have shown the enumeration to be both redundant and defective. Some objects are omitted, and others repeated several times under different heads. It is like a division of animals into men, quadrupeds, horses, asses, and ponies. That, for instance, could not be a very comprehensive view of the nature of Relation which could exclude action, passivity, ...
— A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill


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