redundant (
http://definr.com/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" [syn:
excess,
extra,
spare,
supererogatory,
superfluous,
supernumerary,
surplus]
2: 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" [syn:
wordy]
3: 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,
tautologic,
tautological]