Redundant

Definition of Redundant

Re`dun´dant   Pronunciation: ~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.

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