redundant

Language: en

🇬🇧 /rɪˈdʌndənt/ 🇺🇸 /rɪˈdʌndənt/

📖 Definitions

  1. adjective
    Not or no longer needed or useful; superfluous or exceeding what is necessary.; In British English, dismissed from a job because the position is no longer required; laid off due to restructuring.; In engineering or computing, included as a backup or duplicate to ensure reliability in case of failure.; In linguistics, providing more information than is strictly necessary for comprehension; predictable from context.

🔗 Details

Word forms

Comparative: more redundant Superlative: most redundant

Collocations

make someone redundantredundant informationredundant dataredundant systemsredundant coderedundant safety measures

Derivatives

redundancyredundantlyredundance

Synonyms

superfluousunnecessarysurplusexcessextraneouspleonastic

Antonyms

necessaryessentialindispensable

Commonly confused

repetitive
EN: 'Repetitive' means occurring again and again; 'redundant' means no longer needed or superfluous, even if it only occurs once.
abundant
EN: 'Abundant' means plentiful or existing in large quantities; 'redundant' means exceeding what is necessary or no longer useful.

Spelling tips

EN: Remember the 'u' after 'd': 'red-u-ndant', not 'redndant'. Also note the silent 'd' sound blends with the 'n'.

💬 Examples

  1. The new software made several manual processes redundant.

  2. Over two hundred workers were made redundant when the factory closed.

  3. The server has redundant power supplies to prevent downtime.

  4. The plural marker in 'these books' is redundant because 'these' already indicates plurality.