redundant Definition

redundant
adj

1. Not needed; superfluous.

Thesaurus: excessive, unnecessary, superfluous, inordinate, inessential, wasteful; Antonym: essential, necessary.
2. Said of an employee: no longer needed and therefore dismissed.
3. Said of a word or phrase: superfluous; expressing an idea or sense already conveyed by another word or phrase, and therefore able to be removed without affecting the overall meaning of the sentence, etc.

Thesaurus: repetitious, wordy, verbose, padded, prolix, pleonastic, tautological, windy, diffuse; Antonym: concise.

Derivative: redundantly
adverb

Etymology: 17c: from Latin redundare to surge.