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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
abundant, battological, circumlocutory, copious, de trop, diffuse, diffusive, dispensable, duplicative, echoic, echoing, effusive, excess, excessive, expendable, expletive, extra, extravagant, exuberant, fecund, formless, gratuitous, gushing, gushy, imitative, in excess, inessential, iterative, long-winded, needless, nonessential, overflowing, parrotlike, pleonastic, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, prolific, prolix, recapitulative, reduplicative, reechoing, reiterant, reiterative, repeating, repetitional, repetitionary, repetitious, repetitive, roundabout, spare, superabundant, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus, tautologic, tautological, tautologous, teeming, to spare, uncalled-for, unessential, unnecessary, unneeded, unwanted, verbose, windy, wordy
Dictionary Results for redundant:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
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, redundant, spare,
           supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary,
           surplus]
    2: 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, redundant, tautologic,
       tautological]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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            Notwithstanding the redundant oil in fishes, they do
            not increase fat so much as flesh.    --Arbuthnot.
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   2. Using more worrds or images than are necessary or useful;
      pleonastic.
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            Where an suthor is redundant, mark those paragraphs
            to be retrenched.                     --I. Watts.
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   Syn: Superfluous; superabundant; excessive; exuberant;
        overflowing; plentiful; copious.
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3. The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906)
REDUNDANT, adj.  Superfluous; needless; _de trop_.

    The Sultan said:  "There's evidence abundant
    To prove this unbelieving dog redundant."
    To whom the Grand Vizier, with mien impressive,
    Replied:  "His head, at least, appears excessive."
                                                       Habeeb Suleiman

    Mr. Debs is a redundant citizen.
                                                    Theodore Roosevelt


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