Adjective: redundant
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more redundant |
| Superlative | most redundant |
Sample Sentences
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It is allowed, that Senates and great Councils are often troubled with redundant, ebullient, and other peccant Humours, with many Diſeaſes of the Head and more of the Heart; […] [1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “A Further Account of the Academy. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan), page 82:]
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In the living state, the body is observed to receive aliment; to assimilate a part; to evacuate what is redundant or useless; […] [1822, John Barclay, chapter I, in An Inquiry Into the Opinions, Ancient and Modern, Concerning Life and Organization, Edinburgh; London: Bell & Bradfute; Waugh & Innes; G. & W. B. Whittaker, section I, page 1:]
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A key driver has been the approval of a new housing and employment development called Fawley Waterside, with 1,500 homes planned on the site of a redundant power station on the edge of Southampton Water. [2020 December 16, “Network News: "Robust case" for Fawley branch reopening”, in Rail, page 14:]
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Two entrants shared this award for their work on two quite different stations, but with the same purpose of bringing a redundant station building back into use for the benefit of the community, with the added result of conserving an historic building. [2021 December 15, Robin Leleux, “Awards honour the best restoration projects: The Network Rail Community Award: Saltash and Stow”, in RAIL, number 946, page 58:]
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Joyce Barnaby: You don't kill someone because they made you redundant.
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DCI Tom Barnaby: Not in the town, dear, but this is the country. And, in the country, anything goes. [1999 September 12, Anthony Horowitz et al., “Dead Man's Eleven”, in Midsomer Murders:]
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Four employees were made redundant.
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The two lines are mainly used for redundant and therefore fault-tolerant message transmission, but they can also transmit different messages. [2013, Tom Denton, Automobile Electrical and Electronic Systems, page 142:]
Adjectives inflected like redundant
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Latin redundāns, present participle of redundō (“to overflow, redound”), from red- (“again, back”) + undō (“to surge, flood”), from unda (“a wave”).
Verbs referencing "redundant"
Dutch Adjectives
redundant, Romanian Adjectives
redundant, Finnish Adjectives
redundantti.