• 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
• use of more words than required to express an idea; "a wordy gossipy account of a simple incident"; "a Redundant text crammed with amplifications of the obvious"
• 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

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