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Definitions: Redundant |
RedundantAdjective1. 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". 2. 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". 3. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "redundant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Redundant \Re*dun"dant\ (-dant), adjective. [Latin expression redundans, -antis, present participle of redundare: compare to the French expression redondant. See Redound.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Satire | REDUNDANT, adj. Superfluous; needless; de trop. The Sultan said: "There's evidence abundant To prove this unbelieving dog redundant." To whom the Grand Vizier, with mien impressive, Replied: "His head, at least, appears excessive." Habeeb Suleiman Mr. Debs is a redundant citizen. Theodore Roosevelt. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: RedundantSynonyms: excess (adj), extra (adj), pleonastic (adj), spare (adj), supererogatory (adj), superfluous (adj), supernumerary (adj), surplus (adj), tautologic (adj), tautological (adj), wordy (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Completeness | Brimming; brimful, topful, topfull; chock full, choke full; as full as an egg is of meat, as full as a vetch; saturated, crammed; replete; (redundant); fraught, laden; full-laden, full-fraught, full-charged; heavy laden. |
Redundancy | Adjective: redundant; too much, too many; exuberant, inordinate, superabundant, excessive, overmuch, replete, profuse, lavish; prodigal; exorbitant; overweening; extravagant; overcharged; Verb: supersaturated, drenched, overflowing; running over, running to waste, running down. |
Remainder | Adjective:remaining, left; left behind left over; residual, residuary; over, odd; unconsumed, sedimentary; surviving; net; exceeding, over and above; outlying, outstanding; cast off; superfluous; (redundant). |
Repetition | Adjective: repeated; Verb: repetitional, repetitionary; recurrent, recurring; ever recurring, thick coming; frequent, incessant; redundant, pleonastic. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | I am an kinetically redundant, bio-mechanical demonoid. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Which is redundant. (Titus; writing credit: Karl-Heinz Kfer) Made redundant. (The Van; writing credit: Roddy Doyle) It's it's metaphysical, and redundant. Abortively pedantic. (Bananas; writing credit: Woody Allen; Mickey Rose) | |
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Health | More and higher-quality comprehensive, longitudinal, multifactor studies of implicated risk indicators are needed to obtain firm support for their associations with caries incidence, to clarify the strengths of these associations in differing populations, and to reveal the extent to which the risk indicators provide independent as opposed to redundant information. (references) | |
Business | Redundant staff will be laid off or "reorganized" and encouraged to develop old age care services. (references) | |
The Thai military will certainly need to cut back its redundant military units as more advanced hardware is introduced. (references) | ||
Some prospective franchisers or franchisees, have been recently made redundant and will be seeking to invest their severance payment in a business that they will be able to pass on to their children. (references) | ||
Economic History | Germany | Legislation designed to protect workers limits the ability of employers to adapt to dynamic market conditions, which requires them to be able to shed redundant workers or modify their workforce makeup. (references) |
Vietnam | In return, these institutions will provide credits to address the large stock of non-performing loans in the state-owned banking sector and will create a social safety net for workers made redundant from equitizing, privatizing and downsizing state-owned enterprises. (references) | |
Belgium | The Belgian Government reacted with poor macroeconomic policies to the 1973 and 1979 oil price hikes: it hired the redundant work force into the public sector and subsidized ailing industries--coal, steel, textiles, glass, and shipbuilding--in order to prop up the economy. (references) | |
Political Economy | MEXICO | The new procedures were designed to reduce the cost of exports to Mexico by eliminating redundant testing and certification. (references) |
TAIWAN | Industrial products such as air conditioning and refrigeration equipment, electric hand tools, and synthetic rubber gloves must undergo redundant and unnecessary testing requirements, which include destructive testing of samples. (references) | |
Trade | Taiwan | The adoption of the FDA medical device classification system in June 2000 has simplified the registration process, but redundant testing and registration requirements remain. (references) |
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Rush Limbaugh | All that was produced from the Tom Daschle-led Senate was a bloated farm bill with redundant disaster relief in it and campaign finance reform. |
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| "Redundant" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Redundant" is used about 1,218 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 1,218 | 6,392 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "redundant": fully redundant ♦ make redundant ♦ make smb. redundant ♦ redundant antenna ♦ redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks ♦ redundant Arrays of Independent Disks ♦ redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks ♦ redundant check ♦ redundant code ♦ redundant operation ♦ redundant satellite ♦ redundant security ♦ redundant system ♦ redundant unit ♦ redundant work. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "redundant": redundant-always, redundant-data. | |
Ending with "redundant": ex-redundant, long-redundant, non-redundant, soon-to-be-redundant, suddenly-made-redundant. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "redundant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | me fjalë të tepërta, i tepruar (de trop, dispensable, disproportionate, exaggerated, excess, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, fabulous, far gone, fulsome, heavy, immoderate, inordinate, lavish, over, profuse, undue, unreasonable), i tepërt (excess, excessive, excrescent, last, odd, over, overabundant, spare, superfluous, supernumerary, unnecessary, walloping, waste), i tepërm (excess, excessive, excrescent, last, odd, overabundant, spare, superfluous, supernumerary, walloping, waste). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مفصول عن العمل, مسهب (ample, detailed, lengthy, prolix, verbose), مطنب (lengthy, long winded, prolix, verbose, wordy), وافر (abundant, affluency, affluent, ample, bounteous, bountiful, copious, exuberant, flush, galore, generous, lavish, liberal, myriad, numerous, opulent, overblown, plentiful, plenty, productive, profluent, profuse, rampant, rank, rich, rife, riotous, ripe, voluminous), غزير (abundant, bumper, copious, exuberant, flush, hard, massive, opulent, overmanned, plenteous, plenty, profluent, profuse, rampant, superabundant, torrential, voluminous), زائد (excessive, excrescent, plus, superfluous, supernumerary, swollen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | редундантен, многословен (circumlocutory, copious, diffuse, diffusive, exuberant, lengthy, long winded, prolix, verbose, wordy), претрупан (elaborate, exuberant, finical, finicking, finicky, flamboyant, florid, fussy, gaudy, luscious, lush, luxuriant, ornate, overladen, overwrought, piled, purple, rush, tawdry), плеонастичен (pleonastic), изобилен (abounding, abundant, affluent, bountiful, copious, exuberant, fat, flush, free, good, hefty, liberal, luxuriant, opulent, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, prodigal, productive, profuse, prolific, rank, rich, substantial, thick, unstinted, wealthy), излишен (de trop, excrescent, expletive, needless, otiose, pleonastic, spare, superabundant, superfluous, supernumerary, supervacaneous, surplus, unnecessary, unwanted, waste), избуял (luxuriant, profuse, rampant, rank, riotous, vigorous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 重复 (iterate, Iterated, Iterating, reiteration, repetition). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | redundantní, přebyteèný (expletive, spare, surplus, waste), obšírný (circumstantial, detailed, roundabout, wide), nepotřebný (good for nothing, needless, no earthly use, unnecessary, unwanted, useless), nadpoèetný (odd-man-out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | redundant drift (redundant operation), redundant datainput (redundant-data entry), redundant enhed (redundant entity), redundant kode (redundant code), redundant kodeord (redundant code word), redundant kodning (redundant coding), redundant niveau (redundant level), redundant system (redundant system), rehabilitering af nedlagte mineområder (rehabilitation of redundant sites, restoration of sites), redundans-reserve (redundant system), sikkerhed ved dublering af materiel (redundant security), diskarray (RAID, redundant array of inexpensive disks), overtalligt kromosom (redundant chromosomes), overtallig stang (redundant member), overskydende stang (redundant member), muligheder for at genbeskaeftige den arbejdskraft,som er blevet ledig som foelge af tekniske omlaegninger (possibilities for re-employing workers made redundant by technical changes), mand,der er afskediget af økonomiske grunde (man made compulsorily redundant), helredundant (fully redundant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | redundante beveiliging (redundant security), RAID (raid, redundant array of inexpensive disks), redundant array of inexpensive disks (RAID, redundant array of inexpensive disks), redundant codewoord (redundant code word), redundant niveau (redundant level), redundante arbeid (redundant work), redundante code (redundant code), redundante codering (redundant coding), redundante invoer (redundant-data entry), redundante werking (redundant operation), reservesysteem (redundant system), redundant systeem (redundant system), volledig redundant (fully redundant), mogelijkheden tot het opnieuw te werk stellen van de arbeidskrachten,die ter beschikking zijn gekomen tengevolge van technische omschakeling (possibilities for re-employing workers made redundant by technical changes), saneren van niet meer in ontginning zijnde mijnkompleksen (rehabilitation of redundant sites, restoration of sites), sanering van mijncomplexen na mijnsluiting (rehabilitation of redundant sites, restoration of sites), verborgen arbeid (redundant work), overtollige staaf (redundant member), overtollige chromosomen (redundant chromosomes), om economische redenen ontslagen man (man made compulsorily redundant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | حشو (Redundancy), افزونه , دارای اطناب (Wordy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | rinnakkaisvarmennus (redundant security), redundanttinen systeemi (redundant system), redundanttinen levyryhmä (RAID, redundant array of inexpensive disks), redundanttinen koodi (redundant code), redundanttinen datansyöttö (redundant-data entry), redundantti taso (redundant level), redundantti koodisana (redundant code word), redundantti koodaus (redundant coding), RAID (RAID, redundant array of inexpensive disks), ylimääräinen työ (redundant work), ylimääräinen toiminta (redundant operation), täysin ylimääräinen yksikkö (fully redundant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | redondant, superflu, licencié, en surnombre, abondant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | redundant, zu wortreich, arbeitslos (jobless, out of work, out-of-work, unemployed), überflüssig (expendable, futile, gratuitous, gratuitously, needless, spare, superfluous, superfluously, unnecessary, useless, waste). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πλεονάζων (heaping, surplus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מיותר (excrescent, gratuitous, needless, otiose, spare, superfluous, unnecessary), '"וש (brimful, congested, crowded, flush, full, packed, plentiful, replete). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szükségtelen (needless, uncalled for, unnecessary), túláradó (ebullient, effusive, exuberant, flush, lavish, luxuriant, overflowing, profuse, rhapsodic), pleonasztikus, nélkülözhető (superfluous), létszám fölötti (super), kacskaringós (crooked, curlicued, curly, devious), felesleges (excrescent, over, spare, superfluous, surplus, uncalled for, unnecessary, unwanted), dagályos (bombast, bombastic, effusive, flatulent, grandiloquent, highfaluting, high-flown, inflated, luscious, magniloquent, mouth-filling, pompous, puffed-up, ranting, stilted), cikornyás (arabesque, fussy, highfaluting), bőbeszédű (garrulous, glib, long-winded, talkative, voluble, wordy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ridondante, sovrabbondante (overabundant, overflowing, superabundant), esuberante (effusive, excessive, exorbitant, exuberant, over, rampant), eccedente (excess, surplus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 余剰 (balance, residue, surplus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | よじょう (balance, lasting impression, lingering charm, residue, suggestiveness, surplus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 과다한. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | neuymmyrchagh (inessential, needlessness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | edundantray redundante (excrescent, overabundant), tautológico (overact), superabundante (overabundant, overflowing, prolix, superabundant, superfluous, supervacaneous), supérfluo (excreta, needlewoman, overabundant, overflowing, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, supervacaneous, unnecessary, unwanted), prolixo (absent minded, diffuse, dissemination, dissipation, lengthy, overabundant, prolix, verbose, wordy), pleonástico (overabundant, plethora), excessivo (exceeding, excessive, exorbitant price, fulsome, immodest, inordinate, inorganic, out of work, over, overabundant, overdose, overpowering, prohibitive, racking, rampant, steep, superfluous, supervacaneous, too, ultra, unbounded, unconscionable, undue). (various references) redundant, tautologic (tautological), supranormativ, supraabundent (overabundant, redundantly, superabundant), superfluu (excrescent, superfluous, unnecessary), excesiv (enormous, exceeding, exceedingly, excessive, excessively, exorbitant, extreme, intemperate, out, outrageous, plethoric, redundantly, thick, to excess, undue, unduly, unreasonable), bogat (abundant, abundantly, affluent, ample, amply, bonanza, bountiful, copious, copiously, expensive, exuberant, fat, feathered, fertile, fortuned, free, full, fully, gaudy, heeled, high, highly, lush, luxurious, moneyed, opulent, pecunious, plenteous, plentiful, profuse, purple, rank, rich, richly, saturated, Square, substantial, sumptuous, valuable, warm, wealthy, well off, well to do, well-off). (various references) излишний (de trop, excessive, needless, over, pleonastic, superabundant, superfluous, supervacaneous, unnecessary). (various references) redundantan, suvišan (excessive, spare, surplus), izlišan (spare, superfluous, unnecessary). (various references) redundante (repetitious), superfluo (needless, superfluous, waste), excesivo (exceeding, excessive, exorbitant, extortionate, extravagant, fancy, fulsome, immoderate, inflated, inordinate, reckless, unconscionable, undue, unreasonable, wasteful), excedente (excess, excessive, margin, spillover, surplus), desempleado (idle, jobless, out of work, unemployed). (various references) överflödig (excrescent, expendable, otiose, superfluous). (various references) lüzumsuz (excessive, inessential, needless, unnecessary, unneeded), lâf kalabalığı olan, ihtiyaç fazlası, işten çıkarılmış, gereksiz (digressive, excrescent, gratuitous, idle, indecent, indiscreet, inessential, needless, no, non essential, nonessential, otiose, supererogatory, superfluous, uncalled for, unjustifiable, unnecessary, unneeded, unneedful), gereğinden fazla (excrescent, more than enough, over, overmuch, superabundant, unnecessary), anlama katkısı olmayan. (various references) розтягнутий (bagged, lengthy, outstretched, protracted), резервний елемент, зайвий (excessive, excrescent, needless, nimious, odd, otiose, over, spare, superfluous, surplus), багатий (abundant, affluent, ample, bounteous, copious, moneyed, oof-bird, oofy, opulent, pinguid, plenteous, plentiful, profuse, pursy, rich, rife, superb, wealthy, well off). (various references) thừa (needless, spare, superfluous, supervacaneous, unnecessary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | supervacua, supervacuas, supervacue, supervacuis. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Isaiah Chapter 57, Verse 20 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Oi de adikoi outwV kludwnisqhsontai kai anapausasqai ou dunhsontai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Impii autem quasi mare fervens quod quiescere non potest et redundant fluctus eius in conculcationem et lutum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Vnpitous men forsothe as the boilinge se, that resten mai not; and redounden his flodis in to to-treding, and cley. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | But the evil-doers are like the troubled sea, for which there is no rest, and its waters send up earth and waste. |
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| Language | Isaiah Chapter 57, Verse 20 |
| Bulgarian | А нечестивите са като развълнувано море, Защото не може да утихне, И водите му изхвърлят тиня и кал. |
| Cebuano | Apan ang dautan mahasama sa dagat nga nagubot; kay kini dili makapahulay, ug ang iyang mga tubig nagasabyag sa lapok ug sagbut. |
| Chinese | 惟 獨 惡 人 、 好 像 翻 騰 的 海 、 不 得 平 靜 、 其 中 的 水 、 常 湧 出 污 穢 ' 淤 泥 來 。 |
| Croatian | Al' opaki su poput mora uzburkanog koje se ne može smiriti, valovi mu mulj i blato izmeæu. |
| Danish | Men de gudløse er som det oprørte Hav, der ikke kan komme til Ro, hvis Bølger opskyller Mudder og Dynd. |
| Dutch | Doch de goddelozen zijn als een voortgedreven zee, want die kan niet rusten, en haar wateren werpen slijk en modder op. |
| Finnish | Mutta jumalattomat ovat kuin kuohuva meri, joka ei voi tyyntyä ja jonka aallot kuohuttavat muraa ja mutaa. |
| French | Mais les méchants sont comme la mer agitée, Qui ne peut se calmer, Et dont les eaux soulèvent la vase et le limon. |
| German | Aber die Gottlosen sind wie ein ungestümes Meer, das nicht still sein kann, und dessen Wellen Kot und Unflat auswerfen. |
| Haitian Creole | Men, mechan yo tankou lanmè ki boulvèse. Lanm lanmè yo ap bat san rete, y'ap jete kras ak labou sou rivaj la. |
| Hungarian | És a hitetlenek olyanok, mint egy háborgó tenger, a mely nem nyughatik, és a melynek vize iszapot és sárt hány ki. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Tetapi orang jahat adalah seperti laut yang berombak dan tak pernah tenang. Arusnya membawa sampah dan lumpur. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Tetapi segala orang fasik itu seperti laut yang bergelora, karena tiada ia itu boleh teduh, dan airnya menimbulkan lumpur dan lanyau. |
| Italian | Gli empi sono come un mare agitato che non può calmarsi e le cui acque portan su melma e fango. |
| Korean | 오 직 악 인 은 능 히 안 치 못 하 그 물 이 진 흙 과 " 러 운 것 을 늘 솟 쳐 내 " " 동 하 " " 다 와 같 으 니 라 |
| Maori | Ko te hunga kino ia rite tonu ki te moana ngarungaru; e kore e marino, heoi kei te aia ake e ona wai te puehu, te paru. |
| Modern Greek | Οι δε ασεβεις ειναι ως η τεταραγμενη θαλασσα, οταν δεν δυναται να ησυχαση· και τα κυματα αυτης εκριπτουσι καταπατημα και πηλον. |
| Norwegian | Men de ugudelige er som det oprørte hav; det kan ikke være stille, og dets bølger skyller op skarn og dynd. |
| Portuguese | Mas os ímpios são como o mar agitado; pois não pode estar quieto, e as suas águas lançam de si lama e lodo. |
| Rumanian | Dar cei rqi sknt ca marea knfuriatq, care nu se poate liniwti, wi ale cqrei ape aruncq afarq noroi wi mkl.`` |
| Russian | б ОЕЮЕУФЙЧЩЕ--ЛБЛ НПТЕ ЧЪЧПМОПЧБООПЕ, ЛПФПТПЕ ОЕ НПЦЕФ ХУ ПЛПЙФШУС Й ЛПФПТПЗП ЧП"Щ ЧЩ'ТБУЩЧБАФ ЙМ Й ЗТСЪШ. |
| Spanish | Pero los impíos son como el mar agitado que no puede estar quieto y cuyas aguas arrojan cieno y lodo. |
| Swedish | Men de ogudaktiga äro såsom ett upprört hav, ett som icke kan vara stilla, ett hav, vars vågor röra upp dy och orenlighet. |
| Thai | แต่คนชั่วนั้นเหมือนทะเลที่กำเริบ เพราะมันนิ่งอยู่ไม่ไ"้ และน้ำของมันก็กวนตมและเลนขึ้นมา |
| Ukrainian | А ті несправедливі як море розбурхане, коли бути спокійним не може воно, і коли води його багно й мул викидають. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "redundant": redundantly. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "redundant": nonredundant. (additional references) | |
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"Redundant" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: rebundant, redindant, redondant, redudant, redunant, redundan, redundandt, redundane, redundans, redundanted, redunddent, redundent, redundnt, reduntant. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "redundant" (pronounced rudu"ndunt) |
| 6 | -u" n d u n t | abundant. |
| 5 | -n d u n t | ascendant, attendant, corespondent, correspondent, defendant, dependent, descendant, descendent, despondent, independent, interdependent, pendant, resplendent, respondent, superintendent, transcendent. |
| 4 | -d u n t | accident, antecedent, antioxidant, ardent, coincident, confident, decadent, decedent, discordant, dissident, evident, imprudent, incident, mordant, nonresident, overconfident, oxidant, precedent, provident, prudent, resident, retardant, rodent, strident, student, trident, verdant. |
| 3 | -u n t | abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, absent, absorbent, abstinent, accelerant, accompaniment, accomplishment, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antidepressant, antigovernment, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, arrogant, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assistant, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, combatant, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concomitant, concurrent, condiment, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, containment, contaminant, contentment, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, copayment, cormorant, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, debarment, debasement, decent, declarant, decongestant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, detachment, detergent, determent, determinant, deterrent, detriment, development, deviant, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinfectant, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, dispersant, displacement, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, divestment, docent, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, emigrant, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrant, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, equivalent, errant, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, excellent, excitement, excrement, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extant, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hesitant, hydrant, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, inadvertent, incandescent, incessant, incipient, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, indictment, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, installment, instant, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, intermittent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, militant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, movement, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overpayment, overstatement, pageant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patent, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, postponement, postretirement, potent, preadolescent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, propellant, proponent, protestant, prurient, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, registrant, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repayment, repellent, repentant, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resilient, resistant, resonant, restatement, resultant, resurgent, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, seafront, sealant, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, statement, stimulant, stringent, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, supplement, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, tangent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transient, translucent, transparent, treatment, trenchant, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, vehement, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant, wonderment. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-n-n-r-t-u" | |
-2 letters: daunder, daunted, daunter, natured, undated, unrated, untread. | |
-3 letters: ardent, dander, darned, darted, dauted, duenna, dunned, dunner, dunted, durned, nature, ranted, tanned, tanner, traded, tundra, tunned, turned, undead, unread, unrent. | |
-4 letters: adder, anent, anted, antre, dared, dated, dater, daunt, denar, derat, dread, dured, nuder, rated, readd, redan, tared, trade, tread, trend, trued, tuned, tuner, udder, under, urate. | |
-5 letters: ante, aunt, dare, darn, dart, date, daut, dead, dean, dear, dent, drat, duad, dude, duet, dune, dunt, dura, dure, durn, earn, etna, nard, near, neat, nerd, nude, nurd, rand, rant, rate, read, redd, rend, rent, rudd, rude, rued, rune, runt, tare, tarn, tear, tend, tern, trad, true, tuna, tune, turd, turn, unde, urea. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-n-n-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: understand. | |
+2 letters: redundantly, understands. | |
+3 letters: nonredundant. | |
+4 letters: counterdemand, countermanded, misunderstand, uncoordinated, underinflated, understanding. | |
+5 letters: counterdemands, misunderstands, uncontradicted, uncredentialed, understandable, understandably, understandings, unstandardized. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 64 75 6E 64 61 6E 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . -.. ..- -. -.. .- -. - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01100100 01110101 01101110 01100100 01100001 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e d u n d a n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0064 0075 006E 0064 0061 006E 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)527170878070678086 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Sounds 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Quotations: Spoken | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Translations: Ancient 14. Bible Trace 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Orthography 19. Bibliography |
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