tautologic
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Adjective (1)
- repetition of same and identical sense with different and non-identical 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”Synonyms: pleonasticredundanttautologicalOpposite conciseSimilar prolix, verbal
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Tau′to·log′ic adjective
Tautological.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54