tautological in English

adjective

needlessly repeating an idea, using a redundant word or phrase

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1. "Safe" and "reliable" are tautological .

2. Style is tautological; it communicates stylishness.

3. Dwight: It's a statement about mans tautological search for metaphysical comfort.

4. This is not a completely tautological statement; it's a reasonable statement.

5. The phrase & quot ; a beginner who has just started & quot ; is tautological.

6. Such analyses are, of course, somewhat tautological, they equate fault and legal liability.

7. The last two definitions are tautological and especially meaningless ("paraphilias are disorders and therefore deviant").

8. Synonyms for Alliterative include assonant, echoing, poetic, repetitive, repetitious, verbose, wordy, long-winded, prolix and tautological

9. As I have implied, many of Durkheim's conclusions are tautological or based upon inaccurate assumptions and evidence.

10. The author believes that the understanding of tautological utterances as some other utterances is consistent with the principle of relevance.

11. One of the most important line bundles in algebraic geometry is the tautological line bundle on projective space.

12. That expression only works when it refers to "grown men" and though that may seem tautological, the "grown" is justified.

13. Unfortunately, while superficially attractive, those context-independent truth criteria which have been suggested turn out to be vacuous or tautological.

14. I won't try to explain the anthropic principle, as I am not sure how to do so without making it sound tautological .

15. Structural differences of tautological constructions between English and Chinese should never be overlooked though their structural formulae are assumed to be similar.

16. If you just starting to study the knowledge from books practical problems, we will inevitably fall into a tautological model, this model can not generate new knowledge.

17. But if the nature of language is partly the nature of man, as is suggested in the present thesis, these assertions become tautological .

18. I won't try to explain the anthropic principle(http://Sentencedict.com), as I am not sure how to do so without making it sound tautological .

19. Epanadiplosis is apparently a tautological way of expression with no obvious semantic content, and yet it has significant communicative value in daily verbal communication.

20. In fact, it becomes almost tautological as it suggests that if the processes used to manage employees are described as HRM, then HRM therefore exists.

21. Insisting the principle of "community being primary and language being secondary", we can overcome the tautological errors in defining such concepts as "language" and "community".

22. The simplicity of the PLC framework is appealing; however, several scholars point to some of its major drawbacks, including its tautological nature for managers (Hunt, 19.

23. "I think the answers out there right now offered by a variety of fields are too facile—they're actually tautological, " or logically circular truisms that reveal nothing, Conley told LiveScience.

24. The Italian diva Isa Miranda models "very Italian" dresses in a series of 1935 pictures intended to prove the tautological idea that "Italian elegance is most suitable because it's the best."