'Redundant' definitions:
Definition of 'redundant'
From: WordNet
adjective
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]
adjective
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]
Definition of 'Redundant'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Notwithstanding the redundant oil in fishes, they do not increase fat so much as flesh. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Using more worrds or images than are necessary or useful; pleonastic. [1913 Webster]
- Where an suthor is redundant, mark those paragraphs to be retrenched. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Superfluous; superabundant; excessive; exuberant; overflowing; plentiful; copious. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'redundant'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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