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Redundant   /rɪdˈəndənt/   Listen
adjective
Redundant  adj.  
1.
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."
2.
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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"Redundant" Quotes from Famous Books



... Watt's book on the right use of Reason, where we are told every learned (Scripture) critic has his own hypothesis, and if the common text be not favourable to his views a various lection shall be made authentic. The text must be supposed to be defective or redundant, and the sense of it shall be literal or metaphorical according as it best supports his own scheme. Whole chapters or books shall be added or left out of the sacred canon, or be turned into parables by this influence. Luther knew not well how to reconcile the ...
— Superstition Unveiled • Charles Southwell

... like that of Kyd and Marlowe, with less monotonous regularity in the structure and an increasing tendency to carry on the sense from one line to another without a syntactical or rhetorical pause at the end of the line (run-on verse, enjambement). Redundant syllables now abound and the melody is richer and fuller. In Shakespeare's later plays the blank verse breaks away from all bondage to formal line limits, and the organic continuity is found in a succession of great ...
— The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Caesar • William Shakespeare

... author that people will not read anything elaborate, unless it be broken up into labelled paragraphs. It is true of the newspaper: it is not true of the octavo, to which they sit down expecting a different mode of treatment, a broad, discursive style, flowing, redundant, and even eloquent. Yet Mr. Marsh has in some instances transgressed, we think, even in fulness: the great prominence given, for example, to the drainage of Holland is untrue to the general tenor ...
— Atlantic Monthly,Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various

... Libya there were asses with horns, upon which relation Ctesias {85} yet refines, mentioning the very same animal about India; adding, that whereas all other asses wanted a gall, these horned ones were so redundant in that part that their flesh was not to be eaten ...
— A Tale of a Tub • Jonathan Swift

... translates this verse. Tat should be supplied before asnute; there is redundant va in the first line. The Burdwan ...
— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 - Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 • Unknown


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