redundant
英 [r?'d?nd(?)nt]
美[r?'d?nd?nt]
- adj. 多余的，过剩的；被解雇的，失业的；冗长的，累赘的
英英释意
- 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"
- 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"
- 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