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redundant 音標拼音: [rɪd'ʌndənt] a. 多余的,過多的,冗長的 多餘的,過多的,冗長的 redundant冗餘 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" [ synonym: { 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 [ synonym: { pleonastic}, { redundant}, { tautologic}, { tautological}] 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. [ 1913 Webster] Notwithstanding the redundant oil in fishes, they do not increase fat so much as flesh. -- Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Using more worrds or images than are necessary or useful; pleonastic. [ 1913 Webster] Where an suthor is redundant, mark those paragraphs to be retrenched. -- I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Superfluous; superabundant; excessive; exuberant; overflowing; plentiful; copious. [ 1913 Webster] 70 Moby Thesaurus words for " redundant": 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
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