redundant
Adjective Satellite
- more than is needed, desired, or required
- "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"
- "skills made redundant by technological advance"
- repetition of same sense in different words; ; ; - J.B.Conant
- "at the risk of being redundant I return to my original proposition"
Adj
- Superfluous; exceeding what is necessary, no longer needed.
- 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.
- Containing duplicate pathways to send a message.
Examples
- Four employees were made redundant.
Origin / Etymology
From Latin redundāns, present participle of redundō (“to overflow, redound”), from red- (“again, back”) + undō (“to surge, flood”), from unda (“a wave”).
Synonyms
excess, extra, pleonastic, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus, tautologic, tautological, acervatim, adscititious, dropsical, duplicate, excessive, exorbitant, expletive, extraneous, extravagant, gorged, inessential, inordinate, lavish, needless, nonessential, overflowing, overmuch, overweening, plethoric, prodigal, profuse, repetitive, replete, superabundant, supersaturated, supervacaneous, surplus to requirements, surplusage, too many, too much, unnecessary, verbose
Antonyms
inadequate, lacking, needed, non-redundant
Scrabble Score: 11
redundant: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordredundant: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
redundant: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary