Redundant

Adjective

 * 1) Superfluous; exceeding what is necessary.
 * 2) (Of speech, writing) Repetitive or needlessly wordy.
 * 3)  Dismissed from employment because no longer needed.
 * 4)  Duplicating or able to duplicate the function of another component of a system, providing back-up in the event the other component fails.

Antonyms

 * non-redundant

Related terms

 * redound
 * redundance
 * redundancy

Thesaurus
abundant, battological, circumlocutory, copious, de trop, diffuse, diffusive, dispensable, duplicative, echoic, echoing, effusive, excess, excessive, expendable, expletive, extra, extravagant, exuberant, fecund, formless, gratuitous, gushing, gushy, imitative, in excess, inessential, iterative, long-winded, needless, nonessential, overflowing, parrotlike, pleonastic, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, prolific, prolix, recapitulative, reduplicative, reechoing, reiterant, reiterative, repeating, repetitional, repetitionary, repetitious, repetitive, roundabout, spare, superabundant, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus, tautologic, tautological, tautologous, teeming, to spare, uncalled-for, unessential, unnecessary, unneeded, unwanted, verbose, windy, wordy

Etymology
From redundans:, present participle of redundare: < red-: + undo: < unda:.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: overflødig
 * Dutch:, ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: felesleges


 * Norwegian: overflødig
 * Polish: zbędny
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: superfluo
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: ihtiyaçtan fazla, fazla, gereğinden fazla, lüzumundan fazla, yedek


 * German:
 * Hungarian: terjengő


 * Norwegian:, overflødig
 * Spanish: redundante

Adjective
redundant


 * 1) redundant

Adjective
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 * 1) redundant

Related terms

 * redundanță