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Pleonastic

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Adjective

1. pleonastic, redundant, tautologic, tautological

repetition of same sense in different words

Example Sentences:
'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'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Pleonastic

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noun rhetoric
1. 
the use of more words than necessary or an instance of this, such as a tiny little child
2. 
a word or phrase that is superfluous

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Pleonastic

see synonyms of pleonastic
noun
1. 
the use of more words than are necessary for the expression of an idea; redundancy (Ex.: “plenty enough”)
2. 
an instance of this
3. 
a redundant word or expression

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Pleonastic

see synonyms of pleonastic
n.
1.
a. The use of more words than are required to express an idea; redundancy.
b. An instance of pleonasm.
2. A superfluous word or phrase.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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