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redundantly Definition


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redundant
adj
    1. Not needed; superfluous.
      Thesaurus: excessive, unnecessary, superfluous, inordinate, inessential, wasteful; Antonym: essential, necessary.
    2. Said of an employee: no longer needed and therefore dismissed.
    3. Said of a word or phrase: superfluous; expressing an idea or sense already conveyed by another word or phrase, and therefore able to be removed without affecting the overall meaning of the sentence, etc.
      Thesaurus: repetitious, wordy, verbose, padded, prolix, pleonastic, tautological, windy, diffuse; Antonym: concise.
Derivative: redundantly
adverb
    Etymology: 17c: from Latin redundare to surge.



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