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Pleonastic definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PLEONAS'TIC
PLEONAS'TICAL, a. Pertaining to pleonasm; partaking of pleonasm; redundant.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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, redundant, tautologic, tautological]

Merriam Webster's

adjective see pleonasm

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pleonastic Ple`o*nas"tic, Pleonastical Ple`o*nas"tic*al, a. [Cf. F. pl['e]onastique.] Of or pertaining to pleonasm; of the nature of pleonasm; redundant.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Redundant, tautological, diffuse, superfluous.