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  • 51tautological — adjective a) of, relating to, or using tautology b) using repetition or excessive wordiness; pleonastic or circumlocutionary See Also: tautologically …

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  • 52superfluous — adjective /suːˈpɜːflu.əs,sjʊˈpɜːflu.əs,suːˈpɝːflu.əs/ in excess of what is required or sufficient With a full rain suit, I think carrying an umbrella is superfluous. Syn: excessive, extraneous, extra, pleonastic, supernumerary, surplus …

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  • 53redundant — I adjective excessive, inordinate, needless, otiose, overmuch, periphrastic, pleonastic, repetitive, repititious, superabundant, superfluous, supernumerary, supervacaneus, surplus, tautologic, tautological, uncalled for, undue, unnecessary,… …

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  • 54extraneous — I adjective additional, alien, alienus, aside from the point, coming from without, derived from without, dispensable, extra, extraneus, extrinsic, extrinsical, foreign, impertinent, inapplicable, inapposite, incidental, inconsequent,… …

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  • 55needless — I adjective avoidable, beside the point, causeless, dispensable, excess, excessive, exorbitant, expendable, expletive, extra, extraneous, fruitless, futile, gratuitous, groundless, inordinate, irrelevant, non necessahus, noncompulsory,… …

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  • 56prolix — I adjective bombastic, boresome, boring, circumlocutory, copious, diffuse, discursive, drearisome, extended, full of verbiage, lengthy, long, long spun, long winded, longus, maundering, monotonous, padded, pleonastic, pleonastical, prolonged,… …

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  • 57repetitious — I adjective duplicative, echoic, echoing, harping, incessant, invariable, monotonous, pleonastic, pleonastical, recapitulatory, recurrent, recurring, redundant, reduplicative, reechoed, reiterant, reiterative, repeated, repeating, repetitional,… …

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  • 58turgid — I adjective bombastic, circumlocutory, declamatory, diffuse, digressive, euphuistic, flowery, fustian, grandiloquent, high flown, inflated, long winded, magniloquent, orotund, periphrastic, pleonastic, plethoric, pompous, prolix, puffed up,… …

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  • 59ne — [ nə ] adv. de négation • Xe; lat. non en position proclitique ♦ Forme atone de la négation, dont non est la forme tonique. REM. Le e s élide devant une voyelle ou un h muet : je n en veux pas. Ne précède immédiatement le verbe; seuls les pron …

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  • 60 — ne [ nə ] adv. de négation • Xe; lat. non en position proclitique ♦ Forme atone de la négation, dont non est la forme tonique. REM. Le e s élide devant une voyelle ou un h muet : je n en veux pas …

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