Redundant definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary REDUND'ANT, a. 1. Superfluous ... 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. Redundant words, in writing or discourse, are such as are synonymous ... images than are necessary or useful. Where an author is redundant, mark those paragraphs to be retrenched. 3. In music, a redundant chord is one which contains a greater number of ...
... the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary ornamentation ... parts"; "surplus cheese distributed to the needy" [syn: excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus] Merriam Webster's adjective Etymology ... adverb • superfluousness noun Oxford Reference Dictionary adj. more than enough, redundant, needless. Derivatives: superfluously adv. superfluousness n. Etymology: ME f. L ... perfect interval by a semitone. Syn: Unnecessary; useless; exuberant; excessive; redundant; needless. -- Su*per"flu*ous*ly, adv. -- Su*per"flu ... ADJ Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms a. Excessive, superabundant, redundant, exuberant, unnecessary, needless, useless, expletive, more than enough. Moby ...
... TIC PLEONAS'TICAL, a. Pertaining to pleonasm; partaking of pleonasm; redundant. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: repetition of same ... 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 ... Of or pertaining to pleonasm; of the nature of pleonasm; redundant. Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms a. Redundant, tautological, diffuse, superfluous.
... the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary ornamentation ... parts"; "surplus cheese distributed to the needy" [syn: excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus] n 1: a quantity much ... lay off, left, leftover, leftovers, let go, let out, make redundant, margin, more, net, new, odd, other, outstanding, over, over and ... oversupply, pension off, plethora, plus, pourboire, read out of, redundancy, redundant, release, remainder, remaining, remanent, remove, replace, retire, sack, separate forcibly ...
... circa 1602 1. a. the quality or state of being redundant ; superfluity b. the use of redundant components; also such components c. chiefly British dismissal from a ... cf. F. redondance.] 1. The quality or state of being redundant; superfluity; superabundance; excess. 2. That which is redundant or in excess; anything superfluous or superabundant. Labor . . . throws off ... redundancies. N-COUNT: usu pl 2. Redundancy means being made redundant. (BUSINESS) Thousands of bank employees are facing redundancy as their ...
... the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary ornamentation ... parts"; "surplus cheese distributed to the needy" [syn: excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus] n 1: a quantity much ... plus, preposterousness, prodigality, profuseness, profusion, prolix, puffery, puffing up, redundancy, redundant, remaining, residual, self-indulgence, self-restraint, sensationalism, spare, stretching, superabundance ...
... the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary ornamentation ... parts"; "surplus cheese distributed to the needy" [syn: excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus] n 1: a person serving ... stage spectacle. Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms a. Odd, redundant, in excess, above the regular number, left over (from a ...
... the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary ornamentation ... parts"; "surplus cheese distributed to the needy" [syn: excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus] Merriam Webster's adjective Date ... excess, expendable, expletive, gratuitous, in excess, needless, nonessential, pleonastic, prolix, redundant, spare, superfluous, supernumerary, tautologic, tautologous, to spare, unasked, uncalled-for ...
... the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary ornamentation ... parts"; "surplus cheese distributed to the needy" [syn: excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus] 3: not taken up by ... and simple, put aside, put by, quitclaim, rawboned, recant, redeem, redundant, refrain, refrain from, register, relax, release, relent, relief, relieve, relinquish ...
... 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 ... ADJ Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms a. Repetitious, repetitional, redundant, pleonastic.
... the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary ornamentation ... parts"; "surplus cheese distributed to the needy" [syn: excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus] 2: added to a regular ...
... or surges, fr. unda a wave. See Undulate, and cf. Redundant.] 1. To roll back, as a wave or flood; to ... be in excess; to remain over and above; to be redundant; to overflow. For every dram of honey therein found, A ...
... 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] Webster's 1913 Dictionary Tautologic Tau`to*log ...