redundant
adjective
1. more than is needed, desired, or required
- yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant
- skills made redundant by technological advance
Similar word(s): unnecessary, unneeded, excess, extra, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus
2. repetition of same sense in different words
- at the risk of being redundant I return to my original proposition
Similar word(s): prolix, pleonastic, tautologic, tautological