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

Source: THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)
 

Redundant \Re*dun"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]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

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

Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
 

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]

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

Redundant \Re*dun"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.

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.

Syn: Superfluous; superabundant; excessive; exuberant; overflowing; plentiful; copious.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)