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redundant

re·dun·dant

UK/ɹɪˈdʌn.dənt/ US/ɹɪˈdɐn.dənt/ uncommon uk

adjective

1.

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”
2.

use of more words than required to express an idea

  • “a wordy gossipy account of a simple incident”
  • “a redundant text crammed with amplifications of the obvious”
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3.

repetition of same sense in different words

  • “a true fact”
  • “a free gift”
  • “;”
  • “a beginner who has just started”
  • “;”

Origin

From Latin redundāns, present participle of redundō (“to overflow, redound”), from red- (“again, back”) + undō (“to surge, flood”), from unda (“a wave”).

Phrases

  • redundant acronym syndrome
  • redundant array of independent disks
  • redundant biomass
  • redundant colon

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