pleonastic 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}]
Pleonastic \Ple`o*nas"tic\, Pleonastical \Ple`o*nas"tic*al\, a. [Cf. F. pl['e]onastique.] Of or pertaining to pleonasm; of the nature of pleonasm; redundant. [1913 Webster]