Redundant - Definition

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]