Hypertext Webster Gateway: "redundant"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Redundant \Re*dun"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.
From WordNet (r) 1.6 (wn)
redundant adj 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" [syn: {excess}, {extra}, {spare}, {supererogatory}, {superfluous}, {supernumerary}, {surplus}] 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" [syn: {wordy}] 3: 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 [syn: {pleonastic}, {tautologic}, {tautological}]
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Hypertext Webster Gateway: "repetitive"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Repetitive \Re*pet"i*tive\ (r?-p?t"?-t?v), a. Containing repetition; repeating. [R.]
From WordNet (r) 1.6 (wn)
repetitive adj 1: persistently continual; "the bluejay's insistent cry" [syn: {insistent}] 2: marked by tedious repetition [syn: {iterative}, {reiterative}, {repetitious}] |
