Superfluous vs. Redundant — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Superfluous and Redundant
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Superfluous
Unnecessary, especially through being more than enough
The purchaser should avoid asking for superfluous information
Redundant
Not or no longer needed or useful; superfluous
Many of the old skills had become redundant
An appropriate use for a redundant church
Superfluous
Being beyond what is required or sufficient.
Redundant
Exceeding what is necessary or natural; superfluous.
Superfluous
In excess of what is required or sufficient.
With a full rain suit, carrying an umbrella may be superfluous.
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Redundant
Needlessly wordy or repetitive in expression
A student paper filled with redundant phrases.
Superfluous
More than is wanted or is sufficient; rendered unnecessary by superabundance; unnecessary; useless; excessive; as, a superfluous price.
An authority which makes all further argument or illustration superfluous.
Redundant
Of or relating to linguistic redundancy.
Superfluous
Serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being;
Otiose lines in a play
Advice is wasted words
Redundant
Chiefly British Dismissed or laid off from work, as for being no longer needed.
Superfluous
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
Redundant
(Electronics) Of or involving redundancy in electronic equipment.
Redundant
Of or involving redundancy in the transmission of messages.
Redundant
Made up of identical repeating nucleotide sequences that do not code for genes. Used of DNA.
Redundant
Relating to or being a gene that has multiple codons for the same amino acid.
Redundant
Superfluous; exceeding what is necessary, no longer needed.
Redundant
(of words, writing, etc) Repetitive or needlessly wordy.
Redundant
Dismissed from employment because no longer needed.
Four employees were made redundant.
Redundant
Duplicating or able to duplicate the function of another component of a system, providing backup in the event the other component fails.
Redundant
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.
Redundant
Using more worrds or images than are necessary or useful; pleonastic.
Where an suthor is redundant, mark those paragraphs to be retrenched.
Redundant
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
Redundant
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
Redundant
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
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