The bottles of beer that I brought to the party were redundant; the host's family owned a brewery.
Source: tatoeba (1972)
Redundant
//ɹɪˈdɐn.dənt//
Synonyms for "redundant" (127 found)
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Closest matches (26)
Strong matches (38)
Adjective(15 words)
extraextravagantexuberantfecundfloweryformlessgratuitousgushinggushyidleimitativein excessinessentialiterativelay offlong-windedneedlessnonessentialoverflowingparrotlike
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Adjective(2 words)
Related words (63)
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Antonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
3 entriesRelated terms
6 entriesderived
11 entrieshas context
3 entriesmeronym
2 entriesrelated to
16 entriessimilar
4 entriesTranslations
101 translations across 43 languages.
Arabic
3 entries- حَشْو adj (needlessly wordy)
- زَائِد adj (superfluous)
- فَائِض adj (superfluous)
Armenian
1 entries- ավելորդ adj (superfluous)
Basque
1 entries- gehiegizko adj (superfluous)
Bulgarian
2 entries- излишен adj (superfluous)
- многословен adj (needlessly wordy)
Catalan
2 entries- redundant adj (superfluous)
- redundant adj (needlessly wordy)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 冗余 adj (superfluous)
- 冗杂 adj (superfluous)
Czech
1 entries- nadbytečný adj (superfluous)
Danish
1 entries- overflødig adj (superfluous)
Dutch
3 entries- achterhaald adj (superfluous)
- overbodig adj (superfluous)
- overtollig adj (superfluous)
Esperanto
1 entries- superflua adj (superfluous)
Estonian
2 entries- ülearune adj (superfluous)
- üleliigne adj (superfluous)
Finnish
2 entries- liiallinen adj (superfluous)
- liikasanainen adj (needlessly wordy)
French
1 entries- redondant adj (superfluous)
Galician
2 entries- redundante adj (superfluous)
- redundante adj (needlessly wordy)
Georgian
4 entries- გადამეტებული adj (superfluous)
- გაჭიანურებული adj (needlessly wordy)
- ზედმეტი adj (superfluous)
- ნამეტი adj (superfluous)
German
4 entries- doppelt gemoppelt adj (needlessly wordy)
- redundant adj (needlessly wordy)
- überflüssig adj (superfluous)
- überzählig adj (needlessly wordy)
Greek
4 entries- παραπανίσιος adj (superfluous)
- περίσσιος adj (needlessly wordy)
- περισσός adj (superfluous)
- πλεονάζων adj (superfluous)
Hebrew
1 entries- מיותר adj (superfluous)
Hungarian
4 entries- felesleges adj (superfluous)
- mellőzhető adj (superfluous)
- nélkülözhető adj (superfluous)
- redundáns adj (superfluous)
Irish
1 entries- iomarcach adj (superfluous)
Italian
4 entries- copioso adj (superfluous)
- iperverboso adj (superfluous)
- pleonastico adj (superfluous)
- ridondante adj (superfluous)
Japanese
1 entries- 冗長 adj (needlessly wordy)
Korean
2 entries- 불필요한 adj (superfluous)
- 여분의 adj (superfluous)
Latvian
1 entries- lieks adj (superfluous)
Lithuanian
2 entries- nereikalingas adj (superfluous)
- perteklinis adj (superfluous)
Macedonian
1 entries- излишен adj (superfluous)
Manchu
1 entries- ᠯᠠᠮᡦᠠ adj (superfluous)
Māori
1 entries- tāwere adj (superfluous)
Norwegian
3 entries- overflødig adj (superfluous)
- overflødig adj (needlessly wordy)
- redundant adj (needlessly wordy)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- آرتق adj (superfluous)
Persian
2 entries- افرونگی adj (superfluous)
- حشو adj (needlessly wordy)
Polish
4 entries- nadmiarowy adj (superfluous)
- nadmierny adj (superfluous)
- redundantny adj (superfluous)
- rozwlekły adj (needlessly wordy)
Portuguese
1 entries- redundante adj (superfluous)
Romanian
2 entries- redundant adj (superfluous)
- redundant adj (needlessly wordy)
Russian
1 entries- изли́шний adj (superfluous)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- redundàntan adj (superfluous)
- sȕvīšan adj (superfluous)
- zalihosan adj (superfluous)
- ȉzlišan adj (superfluous)
Slovak
3 entries- nadbytočný adj (superfluous)
- prebytočný adj (superfluous)
- redundantný adj (superfluous)
Slovene
1 entries- odvečen adj (superfluous)
Spanish
3 entries- redundante adj (superfluous)
- redundante adj (needlessly wordy)
- superfluo adj (superfluous)
Swedish
1 entries- överflödig adj (superfluous)
Turkish
4 entries- fazla adj (superfluous)
- gereksiz adj (superfluous)
- gereğinden fazla adj (superfluous)
- ihtiyaçtan fazla adj (superfluous)
Ukrainian
1 entries- надлишковий adj (superfluous)
Vietnamese
2 entries- dư thừa adj (superfluous)
- rườm rà adj (superfluous)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
"Teenage discontentment" is redundant.
Source: tatoeba (813082)
Soldiers currently in theatre will not be made redundant.
Source: tatoeba (844740)
I think this phrase is a little redundant.
Source: tatoeba (1126357)
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