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English Dictionary: redundant	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
redundant adj 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" Synonym(s): excess, extra, redundant, 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 Synonym(s): pleonastic, redundant, tautologic, tautological
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Redundant \Redun"dant\ (-dant), a. [L. redundans, -antis, p. pr. of redundare: cf. F. redondant. See {Redound}.] 1. 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. --Arbuthnot. 2. Using more worrds or images than are necessary or useful; pleonastic. Where an suthor is redundant, mark those paragraphs to be retrenched. --I. Watts. Syn: Superfluous; superabundant; excessive; exuberant; overflowing; plentiful; copious.