REDUNDANT DEFINITIONS - 8 definitions found
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, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus] 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, redundant, tautologic, tautological] redundant 1594, from L. redundantem, prp. of redundare "come back, contribute," lit. "overflow," from re- "again" + undare "rise in waves," from unda "a wave." Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary redundant 1. If you are made redundant, your employer tells you to leave because your job is no longer necessary or because your employer cannot afford to keep paying you. (BRIT BUSINESS; in AM, use be dismissed) My husband was made redundant late last year. ...a redundant miner. ADJ 2. Something that is redundant is no longer needed because its job is being done by something else or because its job is no longer necessary or useful. Changes in technology may mean that once-valued skills are now redundant. ADJ: usu v-link ADJ Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 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. Notwithstanding the redundant oil in fishes, they do not increase fat so much as flesh. --Arbuthnot. 2. Using more worrds or images than are necessary or useful; pleonastic. Where an suthor is redundant, mark those paragraphs to be retrenched. --I. Watts. Syn: Superfluous; superabundant; excessive; exuberant; overflowing; plentiful; copious. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms redundant a. 1. Excessive, superabundant, exuberant, superfluous, overflowing, plentiful, copious. 2. Diffuse. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) redundant rɪˈdʌndənt adj. 1 superfluous, unnecessary, surplus, inessential or unessential, non-essential, unneeded, unwanted, de trop, in excess, excessive: He was made redundant at the age of forty-five and was unable to find another job. 2 wordy, verbose, prolix, over-long, long-winded, repetitious, tautologic(al) or tautologous, circumlocutory, roundabout: The book would be improved if certain redundant passages were improved. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 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 |
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