Redundant

Word REDUNDANT
Character 9
Hyphenation re dun dant
Pronunciations /ɹɪˈdʌn.dənt/

Definitions and meanings of "Redundant"

What do we mean by redundant?

Exceeding what is necessary or natural; superfluous. adjective

Needlessly wordy or repetitive in expression. adjective

Of or relating to linguistic redundancy. adjective

Dismissed or laid off from work, as for being no longer needed. adjective

Of or involving redundancy in electronic equipment. adjective

Of or involving redundancy in the transmission of messages. adjective

Degenerate. adjective

Noting a condition of the wing membrane in bats when it extends well down on the leg, and on the arm embraces the thumb beyond the first phalanx.

Rolling or flowing back, as a wave or surge.

Superfluous; exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant; exuberant.

Using or containing more words or images than are necessary or useful: as, a redundant style.

Exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant; exuberant. adjective

Using more worrds or images than are necessary or useful; pleonastic. adjective

Superfluous; exceeding what is necessary. adjective

Repetitive or needlessly wordy. adjective

Dismissed from employment because no longer needed. adjective

Duplicating or able to duplicate the function of another component of a system, providing back-up in the event the other component fails. adjective

Repetition of same sense in different words adjective

More than is needed, desired, or required adjective

Superfluous; exceeding what is necessary.

(of words, writing, etc) Repetitive or needlessly wordy.

Dismissed from employment because no longer needed.

Duplicating or able to duplicate the function of another component of a system, providing backup in the event the other component fails.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Redundant

The word "redundant" in example sentences

The term redundant design means that when one system fails, another carries the load. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The song is assembly line Akon: a reedy, shouty chorus, a glimmering beat, and questionable spelling and diction ( "Na" actually means "now" in Akon's world, thus making the "na" 's in the title redundant). ❋ Unknown (2008)

"I don't want to use the word redundant, but we have two Revolutionary political leaders representing Maryland, and you wonder if there were great Marylanders who did anything apart from the Revolution," Cohen said. ❋ Unknown (2011)

On the other hand, everyone there will be able to type, and by then technology might have made the ability to sign your name redundant. ❋ Theodore Dalrymple (2011)

Personally, I'd rather the police keep to tormenting criminals than getting trigger-happy with the innocent. p.s. Please don't tell me that "l'eau" makes the preceding word in the title redundant - nay, superfluous and altogether unwanted: a pariah in the great thesaurus of life; an article definitely unwanted. ❋ Buggerthat (2009)

Instantly I expect people to assume I have my facts wrong when I use the word "president" instead of mayor, but let's be clear, the proposal that the Tories have pushed whereby large cities in England would have directly elected mayors with presidential powers which allow them to make councillors almost totally redundant is the last thing that local democracy needs. ❋ Norfolk Blogger (2009)

There is nothing to say that anyone recently made redundant from a bank would have any more experience of classroom management, planning, laws, issues than a classroom assistant with 10 years experience of a classroom who would be expected to do a one year PGCE. ❋ Norfolk Blogger (2009)

Doing something that makes the corruption-ridden cap-and-trade system redundant is good, and a broad-based consumption tax has a lot to recommend it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The genetic code is called redundant (although I myself do not know whether the code is redundant because I don't know the reason why it evolved, so I cannot call it redundant) meaning that more than one codons can code for a single amino acid. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I knew a kid who would use the word redundant for EVERYTHING. ❋ Dailycomic (2008)

It is full of entertainment and instruction, clear and judicious in style and arrangement, discriminating in the selection of topics, abundant in details, and conducted with that peculiar brevity which leaves not a word redundant or deficient. ❋ Unknown (1818)

So as not to make the show's title redundant, Jules gets to bed a boy in episode one not much older than her teenage son. ❋ Ruth Margolis (2010)

The blurring of lines between modes and the overlap of core competencies is changing the face of intermodal to a point that may even make the word redundant: Soon, all transport of freight and goods may be intermodal, with only the exceptions remarkable. ❋ Unknown (2010)

My goal was to not make the title a redundant invisible first level heading element when it's semantics are a bit stronger than that. ❋ Unknown (2009)

KATHMANDU: In a landmark verdict, the Supreme Court today rendered one-year-old oath taken by Vice President Paramananda Jha in Hindi redundant and urged him to take fresh oath in Nepali. ❋ Ananta Raj Luitel (2009)

And in the dictionary under the word redundant, it says see redundant.

Mrs. Wilkinson's middle-class drink-sodden husband (tellingly made "redundant" -- that is, laid off) praises the prime minister for showing down the miners. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Design, in communication theory terms, is "redundant" - it aids communication but it isn't necessary to it. ❋ Jonathan (2004)

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