Langtolang Multilingual Dictionary

ADJECTIVE 2

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”
   Synonymsexcessextrasparesupererogatorysuperfluoussupernumerarysurplus

2. repetition of same sense in different words; and `a free gift' are pleonastic expressions"; is tautological"

   • “`a true fact'”
   • “the phrase `a beginner who has just started'”
   • “at the risk of being redundant I return to my original proposition"- J.B.Conant”
   Synonymspleonastictautologictautological