redundant

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  1. adjective Exceeding what is necessary or natural; superfluous.
  2. adjective Needlessly wordy or repetitive in expression: a student paper filled with redundant phrases.
  3. adjective Of or relating to linguistic redundancy.
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  • I like people to be a little redundant, and a harmless pose is pure redundancy: it only means that a man is up to some innocent game or other, some sort of mystification, and is enjoying himself. —  Father Payne
  • He sat on the edge of one of the yellow chairs and asked, "Anything fresh?" —  Murder By The Book
  • Maquesta's words seemed redundant, a repetition of words resounding in his own mind. —  Dragons of Spring Dawning
  • It was redundant, and he could operate without it for a time. —  Out of Phaze
  • And at her sudden sharp glance he added, "No, no, you're not being made redundant -- I'm retiring at the end of the week. —  A Kiss For Julie
 

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  1. Latin redundāns, redundant-, present participle of redundāre, to overflow : re-, red-, re- + undāre, to surge (from unda, wave; see wed-1 in Indo-European roots).

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  1. from Old French redondant, French redondant, rédondant =Spanish Portuguese redundante =Italian ridondante, from Latin redundan (t-) s, present participle of redundare, overflow, redound; see redound.
 

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