[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

redundant \redun"dant\ -dant, a. l. redundans, -antis, p.
   pr. of redundare: cf. f. redondant. see redound.
   1. exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant;
      exuberant; as, a redundant quantity of bile or food.
      1913 webster

            notwithstanding the redundant oil in fishes, they do
            not increase fat so much as flesh.    --arbuthnot.
      1913 webster

   2. using more worrds or images than are necessary or useful;
      pleonastic.
      1913 webster

            where an suthor is redundant, mark those paragraphs
            to be retrenched.                     --i. watts.
      1913 webster

   syn: superfluous; superabundant; excessive; exuberant;
        overflowing; plentiful; copious.
        1913 webster
see also:
redound 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

redundant
     adj 1: 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" syn: excess, extra, spare, supererogatory,
             superfluous, supernumerary, surplus
     2: use of more words than required to express an idea; "a wordy
        gossipy account of a simple incident"; "a redundant text
        crammed with amplifications of the obvious" syn: wordy
     3: 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 syn: pleonastic, tautologic,
         tautological
see also:
excess extra spare supererogatory superfluous supernumerary 
surplus wordy pleonastic tautologic tautological 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

70 moby thesaurus words for "redundant":
   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

[4] : THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)

redundant, adj.  superfluous; needless; _de trop_.

    the sultan said:  "there's evidence abundant
    to prove this unbelieving dog redundant."
    to whom the grand vizier, with mien impressive,
    replied:  "his head, at least, appears excessive."
                                                       habeeb suleiman

    mr. debs is a redundant citizen.
                                                    theodore roosevelt

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