Crossword clues for redundant
redundant
- Tossed and turned, no longer wanted
- Unusually rude worker covering new department no longer employed
- Unemployed debt-collector bitten by ruddy insect!
- Not needed
- Needlessly wordy
- What "the hoi polloi" actually is
- Unnecessarily repetitive
- Stated more often than was necessary to have been stated
- Saying "You can say that again!" again, say
- No longer useful
- Like evil villains
- Pleonastic
- Like 17-, 36- and 43-Across as well as 11- and 29-Down
- Cherry, nut and bananas not required
- Edition in series on poet largely superfluous
- Opponent of capitalist worker receives demand to pay extra
- A little nephew I'd throw across the swimming pool
- Superfluous, and under changes with time
- Superfluous revolutionary and German worker
- No longer necessary
- Twisted and turned more than needed
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Redundant \Re*dun"dant\ (-dant), a. [L. redundans, -antis, p. pr. of redundare: cf. F. redondant. See Redound.]
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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.
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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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from Latin redundantem (nominative redundans), present participle of redundare, literally "overflow, pour over; be over-full;" figuratively "be in excess," from re- "again" (see re-) + undare "rise in waves," from unda "a wave" (see water (n.1)). Of persons, in employment situations, from 1928, chiefly British. Related: Redundantly.
Wiktionary
a. 1 superfluous; exceeding what is necessary. 2 (lb en of words, writing, etc) repetitive or needlessly wordy. 3 (context chiefly British NZ AU English) dismiss from employment because no longer needed; as in "rendered redundant". 4 duplicate or able to duplicate the function of another component of a system, providing back-up in the event the other component fails.
WordNet
adj. 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]
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]
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]
Wikipedia
"Redundant" is a song by American punk rock band Green Day. It was released as the third single from their fifth album, Nimrod. The song failed to match the impressive chart positions of its predecessors, despite an ambitious music video.
It is one of few Green Day songs in which vocalist/guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong uses an effects pedal.
Redundant by Leo Butler premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 2001 starring Lyndsey Marshal and directed by Dominic Cooke.
Set in seventeen-year-old Lucy's Sheffield council flat, the play follows a year in the promiscuous teenager's life as she makes one disastrous choice after another. It is a dark, often humorous, examination of social poverty. In the introduction in his collected volume of plays, Butler writes of his central character, "Though she is a victim of poverty - in particular, poverty of imagination and of opportunity - Lucy is never a victim in her own home. She never gives up, and both her dreams, however delusional, and her tough, oppositional spirit remain unspoiled even by the end of the play."
It contained the first ever reference in theatre to Osama bin Laden where a character said that the whole country needed to be bombed by him to teach us all what suffering was. The play premiered at Royal Court on 12 September 2001 (the day after the attacks on the World Trade Center), receiving gasps from the audience.
The production is well known for its use of the downstairs stage at Royal court where the overhead arch had been lowered throughout the play until the final scene where it was raised as Lucy sat on the bed making her appear smaller and smaller and more and more redundant to the action.
Leo Butler won the 2001 George Devine Most Promising Playwright Award for the play.
Lyndsey Marshal won the 2001 Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Newcomer for her performance in the play.
Usage examples of "redundant".
CBA television and radio network and affiliated stations, strict financial controls had been introduced, budgets pared and redundant personnel dismissed.
They are not only secretive, appropriative, selfish, and self-defensive, but when redundant are aggressive and tend to destructiveness, the gratification of animal indulgence, intemperance, and debauchery.
The timer had three redundant firing circuits, and all went off within a millisecond of one another, sending a signal down the detonator wires.
He intended to check the quintuply redundant isolation and feed systems on each of them.
Clinton described resorption during development: redundant neurons disappear, resorbed by the body, a process controlled by feedback control mechanisms using sensory data in part.
Without the internal armored bulkheads and cofferdams, the separate, parallel control runs, and redundant circuit breakers of military design, there was little to stop the train wreck of induced component failures, and a chain reaction of shorting, arcing superconductor rings raced through the compartment.
Cyfer will appreciate the implications: a colinear, unidirectional, non-overlapping, redundant triplet code.
The Kaliningrad had too many back-up systems and redundant circuits, and in the computer cabinets functions were in some cases combined.
They stood around the redundant sweatbox blinking at each other, naked, reaching for sheets, blankets, towels, anything to cover their red-skinned, sweaty embarrassment, memories of the previous two wild hours turning their hot red faces still redder.
Although all of the security services have slightly different formal missions, they also have overlapping and redundant responsibilities, and all of them have at least some internal security functions.
By the time of the Gulf War, Iraq had numerous redundant facilities, all heavily guarded and bermed, some of them so secret that Western intelligence did not know of their existence.
It shuts down redundant interfaces and nodes exchange data with each other to inform the STP of loops or topology changes.
Memory seems to be localized in specific sites in the brain, and the survival of memories after massive brain lesions must be the result of redundant storage of static memory traces in various locales.
Clinton described resorption during development: redundant neurons disappear, resorbed by the body, a process controlled by feedback control mechanisms using sensory data in part.
He built multiple agencies with redundant missions and responsibilities to ensure that nothing would be missed, and to create rivalries that would allow him to play one group off against another.