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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. repetition of same sense in different words;
- Example: "`a true fact' and `a free gift' are pleonastic expressions"
- Example: "the phrase `a beginner who has just started' is tautological"
- Example: "at the risk of being redundant I return to my original proposition"- J.B.Conant
[syn: pleonastic, redundant, tautologic, tautological]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Tautological \Tau`to*log"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. tautologique.]
   Involving tautology; having the same signification; as,
   tautological expression. -- Tau`to*log"ic*al*ly, adv.
   [1913 Webster]

   Tautological echo, an echo that repeats the same sound or
      syllable many times.
      [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

tautological
    adj 1: 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, redundant, tautologic, tautological]