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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

... certain freshness and force which {28} the younger Pitt did not always exhibit. Bolingbroke's English prose style is hardly surpassed by that of any other author, either before his time or since. It is supple, strong, and luminous; not redundant, but not bare; ornamented where ornament is suitable and even useful, but nowhere decorated with the purple rags of unnecessary and artificial brilliancy. Such a man, so gifted, must in any case have held a high place among his contemporaries, and probably ...

— A History of the Four Georges, Volume I (of 4) • Justin McCarthy

... easiness and gaiety. They are, for the most part, what their author intended. The diction is correct, the numbers are smooth, and the rhymes exact. There seldom occurs a hard laboured expression or a redundant epithet; all his verses exemplify his own definition of a good style—they consist of 'proper words in ...

— The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume I (of 2) • Jonathan Swift

... an ungirt and relaxed air, which contrasts very strongly with the strenuous ways of the elder playwrights. This exhibits itself not in plotting or playwork proper, but in style and in versification (the redundant syllable predominating, and every now and then the verse slipping away altogether into the strange medley between verse and prose, which we shall find so frequent in the next and last period), and also in the characters. We quit indeed the monstrous types ...

— A History of English Literature - Elizabethan Literature • George Saintsbury

... she who could, In thy heart's sweet neighbourhood, Some redundant sweetness thus Borrow from ...

— The Poems of William Watson • William Watson

... the western part of 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 because of its ...

— A Tale of a Tub • Jonathan Swift

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