What is another word for redundant?
Synonyms for redundant
rɪˈdʌn dəntre·dun·dant
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Wiktionary
redundantadjective
Antonyms:
non-redundantredundantadjective
Antonyms:
non-redundantredundantadjective
Antonyms:
non-redundantredundantadjective
Antonyms:
non-redundantredundantadjective
Antonyms:
non-redundant
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
redundant
Synonyms:
superfluous, excessive, unnecessary, overflowing, luxuriant
Princeton's WordNet
excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplusadjective
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"
Synonyms:
superfluous, senseless, surplus, unembellished, supererogatory, scanty, spare, otiose, wasted, pleonastic, unornamented, extra, free, plain, supernumerary, excess, purposeless, additional, tautological, special, tautologic, trim, bare(a), bare, pointlesspleonastic, redundant, tautologic, tautologicaladjective
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
Synonyms:
excess, tautologic, superfluous, supernumerary, pleonastic, supererogatory, tautological, surplus, spare, extra
Editors Contribution
pointless
useless; without meaning, unnecessary; doesn't need to be added
you've said that already; saying it again is pointless.
Submitted by rinat on September 3, 2019partly same message twice
same (part of) message / bit-sequence appearing ≥ twice in one 'message'
too many pages in this book. the editor should have erased some of the many redundant messages.
Dictionary of English Synonymes
redundantadjective
Synonyms:
excessive, superabundant, exuberant, superfluous, in excess, expletiveredundantadjective
Synonyms:
diffuse
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
redundantadjective
Synonyms:
superabundant, superfluous, excessive, plethoric
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "redundant":
superfluous, unnecessary, redundancy, duplicative, surplus, supernumerary, laid-off, excess, unemployed
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Words popularity by usage frequency
| ranking | word | |
|---|---|---|
| #42 | free | |
| #273 | special | |
| #585 | additional | |
| #1378 | extra | |
| #3226 | plain | |
| #4133 | excess | |
| #5998 | trim | |
| #6173 | spare | |
| #6959 | bare | |
| #7783 | surplus | |
| #8094 | excessive | |
| #9462 | unnecessary | |
| #12212 | unemployed | |
| #12423 | redundant | |
| #12442 | wasted | |
| #16133 | redundancy | |
| #18270 | pointless | |
| #35057 | senseless | |
| #35699 | superfluous | |
| #36438 | overflowing | |
| #67164 | scanty | |
| #67795 | duplicative | |
| #78329 | luxuriant | |
| #118122 | supernumerary | |
| #148311 | purposeless | |
| #156902 | tautological |
How to use redundant in a sentence?
Theaters never closed ... not even during the Spanish flu (pandemic) or plague or cholera, it is as if they are being abolished, as if they are redundant.
Criminal lawyer. Or is that redundant?
These are the kinds of Achilles' heels that show up and can create enormous risks even for systems that are designed to be redundant.
I do think it is redundant.
Our government wastes too much money, including funding redundant research projects like this one.
Translations for redundant
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- redundantCatalan, Valencian
- nadbytečnýCzech
- overflødigDanish
- redundant, überflüssigGerman
- πλεονάζων, περίσσιος, παραπανίσιοςGreek
- superfluo, redundanteSpanish
- redondantFrench
- निरर्थकHindi
- terjengő, feleslegesHungarian
- ավելորդArmenian
- ridondante, iperverboso, copioso, sovrabbondante, pleonasticoItalian
- 冗長Japanese
- ზედმეტი, ნამეტი, ჭარბი, გადამეტებული, სიტყვამრავალი, გაჭიანურებული, სიტყვაგრძელიGeorgian
- achterhaald, overtollig, overbodigDutch
- overflødig, redundantNorwegian
- nadmiarowy, nadmiernyPolish
- redundantePortuguese
- излишнийRussian
- zalihosan, redundantanSerbo-Croatian
- överflödigSwedish
- ihtiyaçtan fazla, gereğinden fazla, lüzumundan fazla, yedek, fazlaTurkish
- 多餘的Chinese
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