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Tautological

Involving tautology; having the same signification; as, tautological expression.

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Prolix 84% connected

Extending to a great length; unnecessarily long; minute in narration or argument; excessively particular in detail; -- rarely used except with refere…

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Prolix 84% connected

Extending to a great length; unnecessarily long; minute in narration or argument; excessively particular in detail; -- rarely used except with refere…

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Verbal 84% connected

Expressed in words, whether spoken or written, but commonly in spoken words; hence, spoken; oral; not written; as, a verbal contract; verbal testimon…

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Verbal 84% connected

Expressed in words, whether spoken or written, but commonly in spoken words; hence, spoken; oral; not written; as, a verbal contract; verbal testimon…

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Tautology 74% connected

A repetition of the same meaning in different words; needless repetition of an idea in different words or phrases; a representation of anything as th…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Tautology 74% connected

A repetition of the same meaning in different words; needless repetition of an idea in different words or phrases; a representation of anything as th…

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Pleonastic 92% connected

Alt. of Pleonastical

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Redundant 92% connected

Exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant; exuberant; as, a redundant quantity of bile or food.

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Tautologic 92% connected

Tautological.

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Actively adverb · 78% connection

In an active signification; as, a word used actively.

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Adamant noun · 78% connection

A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in…

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Agnostic adjective · 78% connection

Professing ignorance; involving no dogmatic; pertaining to or involving agnosticism.

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Ambiguity noun · 78% connection

The quality or state of being ambiguous; doubtfulness or uncertainty, particularly as to the signification of language, arising from i…

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Ambiguous adjective · 78% connection

Doubtful or uncertain, particularly in respect to signification; capable of being understood in either of two or more possible senses;…

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Compose verb · 78% connection

To construct by mental labor; to design and execute, or put together, in a manner involving the adaptation of forms of expression to i…

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Covariant noun · 78% connection

A function involving the coefficients and the variables of a quantic, and such that when the quantic is lineally transformed the same…

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Definite adjective · 78% connection

Having certain limits in signification; determinate; certain; precise; fixed; exact; clear; as, a definite word, term, or expression.

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Diction noun · 78% connection

Choice of words for the expression of ideas; the construction, disposition, and application of words in discourse, with regard to clea…

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Euphemism noun · 78% connection

A figure in which a harts or indelicate word or expression is softened; a way of describing an offensive thing by an inoffensive expre…

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Exclamation noun · 78% connection

A loud calling or crying out; outcry; loud or emphatic utterance; vehement vociferation; clamor; that which is cried out, as an expres…

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Exponential adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to exponents; involving variable exponents; as, an exponential expression; exponential calculus; an exponential function.

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Expression noun · 78% connection

The act of expressing; the act of forcing out by pressure; as, the expression of juices or oils; also, of extorting or eliciting; as,…

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Factoring noun · 78% connection

(mathematics) the resolution of an expression into factors such that when multiplied together they give the original expression

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Factorisation noun · 78% connection

(mathematics) the resolution of an expression into factors such that when multiplied together they give the original expression

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Factorization noun · 78% connection

(mathematics) the resolution of an expression into factors such that when multiplied together they give the original expression

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Force noun · 78% connection

Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigor; might; often, an unusual degree of strength or energy; capacity of exercising…

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Frank-law noun · 78% connection

The liberty of being sworn in courts, as a juror or witness; one of the ancient privileges of a freeman; free and common law; -- an ob…

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