01 a. Exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant; exuberant; as, a redundant quantity of bile or food.
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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.
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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.