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adjective

Redundant adj.

Exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant; exuberant; as, a redundant quantity of bile or food. "Notwithstanding the redundant oil in fishes, they do not increase fat so much as flesh."

Using more worrds or images than are necessary or useful; pleonastic. "Where an suthor is redundant, mark those paragraphs to be retrenched."

Synonyms: Superfluous; superabundant; excessive; exuberant; overflowing; plentiful; copious.

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Etymology of 'Redundant'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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