tautologic adj 1: 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 [syn: {pleonastic}, {redundant}, {tautologic}, {tautological}]
Tautologic \Tau`to*log"ic\, a. Tautological. [1913 Webster]