redundant
Từ điển Collocation
redundant adj.
1 no longer needed for a job
VERBS be | become | make sb the decision to make 800 employees compulsorily redundant
ADV. compulsorily
2 not necessary or wanted
VERBS be, feel, seem | become | declare sth, make sth, render sth The chapel was declared redundant in 1995.
ADV. completely | virtually | largely
Từ điển WordNet
adj.
- more than is needed, desired, or required; excess, extra, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus
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
- 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; pleonastic, tautologic, tautological
English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary
syn.: excess extra pleonastic spare supererogatory superfluous supernumerary surplus tautologic tautological
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