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Word | Redundant |
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 / Exceeding what is natural or necessary / superfluous; repetitious; excessively wordy / not or no longer needed or useful; superfluous. / repeating something else and therefore unnecessary / used to describe part of a machine, system, etc., that has the same function as another part and that exists so that the entire machine, system, etc., will not fail if the main part fails / dismissed from a job because you are no longer needed, | |
Usage | ⇒ She wrote a beautiful paragraph without a redundant word ⇒ In your essay, you repeat several points unnecessarily; try to avoid redundancy in the future. ⇒ He edited the paper and removed any redundant information or statements. ⇒ this redundant brewery has been converted into a library |
Synonyms | superfluous, surplus, extra, pleonastic, excessive, supererogatory, unnecessary, excess, tautological, wordy, overflowing, prolix, spare, verbose, supernumerary, gratuitous, long-winded, unneeded, unwanted, needless, |
Antonyms | concise, necessary, compendious, essential, indispensable, laconic, meager, obligatory, scant, scanty, scarce, single, singular, sparse, succinct, terse, absence, abstemiousness, abstinence, actual, |
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