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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 Date: 1620 tautologous • tautologically adverb

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tautological Tau`to*log"ic*al, a. [Cf. F. tautologique.] Involving tautology; having the same signification; as, tautological expression. -- Tau`to*log"ic*al*ly, adv. Tautological echo, an echo that repeats the same sound or syllable many times.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

A tautological statement involves tautology. ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Repetitious, repetitional, redundant, pleonastic.