redundant
pronunciation
How to pronounce redundant in British English:
UK [rɪˈdʌndənt]
How to pronounce redundant in American English:
US [rɪˈdʌndənt]
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- Adjective:
- more than is needed, desired, or required
- use of more words than required to express an idea
- repetition of same sense in different words
Word Origin
- redundant
- redundant: [17] Etymologically, something that is redundant ‘overflows’ because there is too much of it. The word comes from the present participle of Latin redundāre ‘flow back, overflow’ (source also of English redound [14]). This was a compound verb formed from the prefix re- ‘back, again’ and undāre ‘rise in waves, surge’, a derivative of unda ‘wave’ (source of English undulate).=> redound, surround, undulate
- redundant (adj.)
- 1590s, from Latin redundantem (nominative redundans), present participle of redundare, literally "overflow, pour over; be over-full;" figuratively "be in excess," from re- "again" (see re-) + undare "rise in waves," from unda "a wave" (see water (n.1)). Of persons, in employment situations, from 1928, chiefly British. Related: Redundantly.
Example
- 1. Your company is struggling and you got made redundant .
- 2. In an important sense it was always redundant .
- 3. Grocery-shopping normally takes hours and is a pretty redundant activity .
- 4. Wouldn 't it be redundant to list the trees and the forests ?
- 5. However , while the two mechanisms overlap , they are not redundant .