adj
Meaning 1
Of, or relating to pleonasm.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
pleonastic
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/ˌpliː.əˈnæs.tɪk/
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adj
Meaning 2
Redundant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
Examples
- 1988 [Hutchinson Educational], Anna Laura Lepschy, Giulio C. Lepschy, The Italian Language Today, 2nd Edition, Reprinted 1992, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 107, In these sentences finchè may be followed by a non which is called ‘pleonastic’ and does not negate the predicate in the subordinate clause: Ugo aspetta finchè non lo chiamano 'Ugo is waiting until they call him'. When the main clause is negative one must always use the pleonastic non after finchè in the subordinate clause: Ugo non si muove finchè non lo chiamano 'Ugo is not moving until they call him'.
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adj
Meaning 3
Characterised by the use of redundant words or an excessive number of words.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
Examples
- 1974, Olgierd Wojtasiewicz (translator), Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, Pragmatic Logic, [1965, Logika Pragmatyczna], D. Reidel Publishing Company, PWN-Polish Scientific Publishers, page 44, A characteristic intension of a term unambiguously describes the extension of that term. But a characteristic intension of a term may be pleonastic, i.e., it may contain more properties than it is necessary to define the extension of that term. For instance, the intension of the term "square" consisting of the properties "planeness, quadrilaterality, rectangularity, equilaterality, being inscribable in a circle" would be pleonastic since it would include more properties than it is necessary to describe the extension of the term "square". [...] The complete intension always is characteristic and pleonastic. It is the most pleonastic of all those intensions which are characteristic of a given set of objects.
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adjective satellite
Meaning 4
repetition of same sense in different words- J.B.Conant
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- `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
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: redundant, tautologic, tautological
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From pleonasm + -astic.
Across languages
Translations
33 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Belarusian: плеанасты́чны (pljeanastýčny) — of, or relating to pleonasm
- Czech: pleonastický — of, or relating to pleonasm
- Dutch: pleonastisch — of, or relating to pleonasm
- Esperanto: pleonasma — of, or relating to pleonasm
- Finnish: pleonastinen — of, or relating to pleonasm
- French: pléonastique — of, or relating to pleonasm
- German: pleonastisch — of, or relating to pleonasm
- Greek: πλεοναστικός (pleonastikós) — of, or relating to pleonasm
- Indonesian: boros kata — of, or relating to pleonasm
- Italian: pleonastico — of, or relating to pleonasm
- Polish: pleonastyczny — of, or relating to pleonasm
- Polish: pleonazmiczny — of, or relating to pleonasm
- Portuguese: pleonástico — of, or relating to pleonasm
- Russian: плеонасти́ческий (pleonastíčeskij) — of, or relating to pleonasm
- Spanish: redundante — of, or relating to pleonasm
- Spanish: pleonástico — of, or relating to pleonasm
- Ukrainian: плеонасти́чний (pleonastýčnyj) — of, or relating to pleonasm
- Belarusian: плеанасты́чны (pljeanastýčny) — characterised by redundancy or the use of an excess number of words
- Bulgarian: многословен (mnogosloven) — characterised by redundancy or the use of an excess number of words
- Dutch: pleonastisch — characterised by redundancy or the use of an excess number of words
- Esperanto: pleonasma — characterised by redundancy or the use of an excess number of words
- Finnish: pleonastinen — characterised by redundancy or the use of an excess number of words
- Finnish: liikasanainen — characterised by redundancy or the use of an excess number of words
- Greek: πλεοναστικός (pleonastikós) — characterised by redundancy or the use of an excess number of words
- Hungarian: pleonasztikus — characterised by redundancy or the use of an excess number of words
- Hungarian: szóhalmazó — characterised by redundancy or the use of an excess number of words
- Hungarian: szószaporító — characterised by redundancy or the use of an excess number of words
- Italian: ridondante — characterised by redundancy or the use of an excess number of words
- Italian: espletivo — characterised by redundancy or the use of an excess number of words
- Italian: pleonastico — characterised by redundancy or the use of an excess number of words
- Portuguese: pleonástico — characterised by redundancy or the use of an excess number of words
- Russian: плеонасти́ческий (pleonastíčeskij) — characterised by redundancy or the use of an excess number of words
- Ukrainian: плеонасти́чний (pleonastýčnyj) — characterised by redundancy or the use of an excess number of words