pleonastic

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Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
18
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ˌpliː.əˈnæs.tɪk/

Definition of pleonastic

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Of, or relating to pleonasm.
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adj

  1. (not-comparable)Of, or relating to pleonasm.
  2. Redundant.
  3. Characterised by the use of redundant words or an excessive number of words.
    “Before undertaking to show the connection which this papyrus seems to establish between an apparently historical king of the IId dynasty and the hero of a romance of the XIXth (an interval of two or three thousand years), I will give an English version of Dr. Brugsch's German translation, condensing somewhat its more pleonastic passages, but preserving its genuine Egyptian features.”
    “To sum up, it may be said that the prediction of loss is borne out by the facts in Latvian and its dialects: the highly marked pleonastic morphology is no longer part of the system.[…]However, within the Lithuanian dialect cluster, pleonastic morphology is still a long way from collapsing altogether.”

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Etymology

From pleonasm + -astic.

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