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redundant

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"No longer needed"

9 letters · collected on this word page

9 lettersPronunciation /ɹɪˈdʌn.dənt/Part of speech adjectiveSorted addennrtuStarts with REnds with T1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. repetition of same and identical sense with different and non-identical words

Word origin

From Latin redundāns, present participle of redundō (“to overflow, redound”), from red- (“again, back”) + undō (“to surge, flood”), from unda (“a wave”).

Used in a sentence

  • 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; […]
  • In the living state, the body is observed to receive aliment; to assimilate a part; to evacuate what is redundant or useless; […]
  • 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.

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