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Definition of Redundant
Redundant

Exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant; exuberant; as, a redundant quantity of bile or food.

Using more worrds or images than are necessary or useful; pleonastic.

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Redundant Quotations

I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in life - they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing - which was redundant.
Donna Mills

You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.
Billy Tauzin

But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story.
Glenn Danzig

I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
Billy Connolly

Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.
Alan Rudolph

Redundant Translations

redundant in Italian is senza lavoro

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