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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Redundant \Re*dun"dant\ (-dant), adjective [L. redundans, -antis, p. pr. of redundare: cf. F. redondant. See {Redound}.]
1. Exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant; exuberant; as, a redundant quantity of bile or food.
Notwithstanding the redundant oil in fishes, they do not increase fat so much as flesh. --Arbuthnot.
2. Using more worrds or images than are necessary or useful; pleonastic.
Where an suthor is redundant, mark those paragraphs to be retrenched. --I. Watts.
Syn: Superfluous; superabundant; excessive; exuberant; overflowing; plentiful; copious.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
redundant
adjective
1: more than is needed, desired, or required; "trying to lose excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary ornamentation"; "it was supererogatory of her to gloat"; "delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words"; "extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts"; "surplus cheese distributed to the needy" [syn: {excess}, {extra}, {spare}, {supererogatory}, {superfluous}, {supernumerary}, {surplus}]
2: use of more words than required to express an idea; "a wordy gossipy account of a simple incident"; "a redundant text crammed with amplifications of the obvious" [syn: {wordy}]
3: repetition of same sense in different words; "'a true fact' and 'a free gift' are pleonastic expressions"; "the phrase 'a beginner who has just started' is tautological"; "at the risk of being redundant I return to my original proposition"- J.B.Conant [syn: {pleonastic}, {tautologic}, {tautological}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "redundant": abundant, battological, circumlocutory, copious, de trop, diffuse, diffusive, dispensable, duplicative, echoic, echoing, effusive, excess, excessive, expendable, expletive, extra, extravagant, exuberant, fecund, formless, gratuitous, gushing, gushy, imitative, in excess, inessential, iterative, long-winded, needless, nonessential, overflowing, parrotlike, pleonastic, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, prolific, prolix, recapitulative, reduplicative, reechoing, reiterant, reiterative, repeating, repetitional, repetitionary, repetitious, repetitive, roundabout, spare, superabundant, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus, tautologic, tautological, tautologous, teeming, to spare, uncalled-for, unessential, unnecessary, unneeded, unwanted, verbose, windy, wordy
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
REDUNDANT, adjective Superfluous; needless; _de trop_.
The Sultan said: "There's evidence abundant To prove this unbelieving dog redundant." To whom the Grand Vizier, with mien impressive, Replied: "His head, at least, appears excessive." Habeeb Suleiman
Mr. Debs is a redundant citizen. Theodore Roosevelt
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