tautologous
/tawt-l-oj-i-kuhl/US // ˌtɔt lˈɒdʒ ɪ kəl //
同义词,同义反复,同义,同声传译
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Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
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- : needlessly repetitive without adding information or clarity:Third-world communist regimes, with tautological insistence, call themselves "people's democracies."
- : defined in terms of itself:Some would argue that the phrase ''survival of the fittest'' is tautological, in that the fittest are defined as those that survive to reproduce.
Synonyms & Antonyms
as inverbose
Synonyms
bombastic轰轰烈烈,虚张声势,轰轰烈烈的,夸夸其谈circumlocutory旁敲侧击,周边,旁证,旁敲侧击的diffuse弥漫性,扩散,扩散性,弥漫flowery如花似玉,如花的,鲜花般的,如花似锦full of air充满了空气,充满空气,充满空气的,充满气息fustian锈迹斑斑,锈蚀,锈色,锈迹斑斑的gabby加比,嘉比,伽比,伽布比garrulous唠唠叨叨,唠叨,唠唠叨叨的,贫嘴grandiloquent大言不惭,大言不惭的,大言不惭的人,大言不惭地involved涉及的,涉及到的,涉及,涉及的问题loquacious长话短说,长篇大论,长舌妇,长篇大论的magniloquent口若悬河,口才好,口才了得,口若悬河的人palaverous马马虎虎,马虎了事,马马虎虎的,马虎periphrastic缩略语,句法,句式,补语pleonastic褶皱性,褶皱式,褶皱,褶皱型prolix冗长的文字,冗长,冗赘,冗赘的redundant冗长的,冗长,冗赘,冗赘的repeating重复,重复进行,重复的,复读repetitious反复无常,反复无常的,屡次,重复的repetitive重复的,重复性的,重复性,重复rhetorical修辞学,修辞,修辞的,修辞手法talkative多嘴多舌,多嘴,滔滔不绝,多言多语talky唠叨,说话,谈话,嘴上说说tautological同义词,同义反复,同义的,同义tedious乏味的,乏味,烦琐的,烦人的tortuous曲折的,迂回的,迂回曲折,弯弯曲曲的windy大风,有风,有风的时候,大风天气yacking喋喋不休
as incircumlocutionary
Examples
To say that, if it increases, his wages increase is to be simply tautologous.
The phrase pre-established harmony is, strictly speaking, tautologous.
Or if the first expression be preferred, the second may be omitted, as perfectly tautologous.
I am (to adopt a phrase which is to me tautologous) an orthodox Jew.'
And the tautologous, useless nature of the hypothesis in the second forces the theory back to the first view.
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