tautological

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
“
I think you should be able to recognize that so far, you have only made what I would call a tautological argument.

View all »
Definitions (3)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (1)

  1. Characterized by or of the nature of tautology: as, tautological expressions. Pleonasms of words, tautological repetitions. Burton, Anat. of Mel., To the Reader, p. 25.

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (1)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • Perhaps this is just a formality; in musicological speak it is just the framing return of the ritornello which is I suppose Italian for that which returns: tautological, superfluous.
  • Although it is a weak criticism to call them tautological, for the truth is every theory is tautological. —  THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT - Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Nearing the flock, I realized that the scene's strangest aspect was neither the grotesque shepherd nor the tautological roadblock, but the sheep themselves. —  F ;SF; - vol 101 issue 04-05 - October-November 2001
  • (I know it sounds tautological, but think about it.) —  Planet Atheism
  • I think you should be able to recognize that so far, you have only made what I would call a tautological argument. —  Waldo's Virginia Political Blogroll
More examples »
 

Tags

tautological hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 252 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

If you'd like to prod us on getting a pronunciation for this word, sign in (or sign up) and let us know.

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

We are still working on calculating this word's frequency.

Recently looked up

anchor · te · spleen · ivory · kow-tow

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

eu oi oìa u ou e u oìa · the octopi are dry · Kansas City · spell it rite · put it in your pocket