Definition of 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"
• 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