redundant
re·dun·dant
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.
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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