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adjective

Redundant adj.

Exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant; exuberant; as, a redundant quantity of bile or food. "Notwithstanding the redundant oil in fishes, they do not increase fat so much as flesh."

Using more worrds or images than are necessary or useful; pleonastic. "Where an suthor is redundant, mark those paragraphs to be retrenched."

Synonyms: Superfluous; superabundant; excessive; exuberant; overflowing; plentiful; copious.

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Etymology of 'Redundant'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Redundant" Quotes from Famous Books

... her knees beside her new friend, her anxiety speaking from her tired eyes, full of their shadows of pain. Mrs. Mathews drew her close, and smoothed back Frances' wilful, redundant hair with soothing touch. For a little while she said nothing, but there was much in her delicate ...

— The Rustler of Wind River • G. W. Ogden

... impossible to live with. Borders and cut out borders have a commonplace appearance and are not in the best of taste. And then there are papers with vulgarity of design. This quality is hard to define clearly, for it may be only a slightly redundant curve or other lack of true feeling for the beauty of line, or a bit too much, or too little, color, or a bad combination of color, or a lack of knowledge of the laws of balance and harmony and ornament, ...

— Furnishing the Home of Good Taste • Lucy Abbot Throop

... Rembrandt, it appeared, had come into Mr. Fontage's possession many years ago, while the young couple were on their wedding-tour, and under circumstances so romantic that she made no excuse for relating them in all their parenthetic fulness. The picture belonged to an old Belgian Countess of redundant quarterings, whom the extravagances of an ungovernable nephew had compelled to part with her possessions (in the most private manner) about the time of the Fontages' arrival. By a really remarkable coincidence, it happened that their courier ...

— Crucial Instances • Edith Wharton

... is to be noted here and elsewhere throughout these extracts, until the modern spelling at the close of the period, the redundant "l" in many words. It was an effect of pure pedantry. The latin "l" had become u in northern French. Falsa made, naturally, "Fausse." The partial learning of the later middle ages reintroduced an "l" which was not known to be transformed, ...

— Avril - Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance • H. Belloc

... that King Piko, at peace with King Hello, and well content with, the tranquillity of the times, little relished the idea of picking a quarrel with his neighbor, and running its risks, in order to phlebotomize his redundant population. ...

— Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) • Herman Melville

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