redundant

redundant is a 9-letter English word with 4 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant; exuberant; as, a redundant quantity of bile or food. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant; exuberant; as, a redundant quantity of bile or food.
2. adjective. Using more worrds or images than are necessary or useful; pleonastic.
3. adjective. repetition of same sense in different words- J.B.Conant

   "`a true fact' and `a free gift' are pleonastic expressions"

   "the phrase `a beginner who has just started' is tautological"

   Synonyms: pleonastic, tautologic, tautological

4. adjective. more than is needed, desired, or required

   "trying to lose excess weight"

   "found some extra change lying on the dresser"

   Synonyms: excess, extra, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus

Synonyms

pleonastic, tautologic, tautological, excess, extra, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus

Common word forms

redundantly

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