re·dun·dant /-dənt/
(a.)多餘的,過多的,冗長的
re·dun·dant /rɪˈdəndənt/ 形容詞
redundant
冗餘
Re·dun·dant a.
1. 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. --Arbuthnot.
2. Using more worrds or images than are necessary or useful; pleonastic.
Where an suthor is redundant, mark those paragraphs to be retrenched. --I. Watts.
Syn: -- Superfluous; superabundant; excessive; exuberant; overflowing; plentiful; copious.
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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]