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tautological
adjective
(tau-to-log-i-cal)
repetition of same sense in different words
Synonyms:
pleonastic
,
redundant
,
tautologic
,
Examples:
The phrase `a beginner who has just started' is tautological.
Words Related to
tautological
!
prolix
,
redundant
,
pleonastic
,
tautologic
,
otiose
,
nonsensical
,
fallacious
,
falsifiable
,
syllogistic
,
oxymoronic
,
illogical
,
counterfactual
,
specious
,
trite
,
sophistic
,
absurd
,
propositional
,
fatuous
,
unprovable
,
irrelevant
,
superfluous
,
hyperbolic
,
pedantic
,
ontological
,
inferential
,
preposterous
,
ungrammatical
,
ahistorical
,
assumptive
,
reductionist
,
delusory
,
justificatory
,
infelicitous
,
accusative
,
obtuse
,
subjectivist
,
uncaused
,
teleological
,
contentless
,
reductive
,
hubristic
,
mealymouthed
,
disprovable
,
incommunicable
,
hegelian
,
positivistic
,
ethnocentric
,
epistemic
,
overdetermined
,
whiggish
,
unscholarly
,
denotative
,
delusive
,
ludic
,
universalistic
,
inapposite
,
inapt
,
connotative
,
monistic
,
conjectural
,
adverbial
,
epistemological
,
unexceptionable
,
perfectible
,
unreasoned
,
factitious
,
terminological
,
unuttered
,
speciesist
,
fortiori
,
rationalistic
,
ineloquent
,
inerrant
,
nonobvious
,
unreflective
,
unmodern
,
anthropocentric
,
refutable
,
formalistic
,
genitive
,
jejune
,
facetious
,
benthamite
,
kantian
,
hortatory
,
tendentious
,
percipient
,
simpleminded
,
pretentious
,
solipsistic
,
expressible
,
simplistic
,
cultureless
,
abstruse
,
incommensurable
,
nonrational
,
attributive
,
panglossian
,
reified
,
unimprovable
,
tautological
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