'Tautologous' definitions:
Definition of 'Tautologous'
From: GCIDE
- Tautologous \Tau*tol"o*gous\, a. [Gr. ?; ?, for ? ? the same + ? to speak.] Repeating the same thing in different words; tautological. [R.] --Tooke. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'tautologous'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abundant,
- battological,
- copious,
- de trop,
- diffuse,
- diffusive,
- dispensable,
- duplicative,
- echoic,
- echoing,
- effusive,
- excess,
- expendable,
- expletive,
- extravagant,
- exuberant,
- fecund,
- formless,
- gratuitous,
- gushing,
- gushy,
- imitative,
- in excess,
- iterative,
- needless,
- nonessential,
- overflowing,
- parrotlike,
- pleonastic,
- prodigal,
- productive,
- profuse,
- profusive,
- prolific,
- prolix,
- recapitulative,
- redundant,
- reduplicative,
- reechoing,
- reiterant,
- reiterative,
- repeating,
- repetitional,
- repetitionary,
- repetitious,
- repetitive,
- spare,
- superabundant,
- supererogatory,
- superfluous,
- tautologic,
- tautological,
- teeming,
- to spare,
- uncalled-for,
- unessential,
- unnecessary,
- unneeded,
- verbose