adjective
- More than is needed, desired, or required.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: excess, extra, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus
- 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
- synonyms: pleonastic, tautologic, tautological
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