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pleonastic

/plee-uh-nas-tik/US // ˌpli əˈnæs tɪk //

褶皱性,褶皱式,褶皱,褶皱型

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : relating to or having the characteristics of pleonasm; needlessly wordy or redundant: pleonastic expressions such as “I heard it with my own ears.”

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Examples

  • Do you fear to quote the sublimated utterances of the perspicacious, although pleonastic philosopher?

  • Soke means jurisdiction and sake and soke is but a pleonastic phrase, which means no more than soke.

  • My banks, they are furnished,—the most straitest sect,—these are pleonastic expressions.

  • Johnson's emendation, though pleonastic, makes least change upon the text of the Folios.

  • The other pleonastic suffixes mentioned under Prakrit are also employed in Marathi, but usually with specific senses.