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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. repetition of same sense in different words;
- Example: "`a true fact' and `a free gift' are pleonastic expressions"
- Example: "the phrase `a beginner who has just started' is tautological"
- Example: "at the risk of being redundant I return to my original proposition"- J.B.Conant
[syn: pleonastic, redundant, tautologic, tautological]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Pleonastic \Ple`o*nas"tic\, Pleonastical \Ple`o*nas"tic*al\, a. [Cf. F. pl['e]onastique.] Of or pertaining to pleonasm; of the nature of pleonasm; redundant. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

pleonastic adj 1: 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, redundant, tautologic, tautological]