Question

What is another word for redundant with the same meaning?

Answer 1

Hint: Two or more words having the same or similar meanings are said to be synonymous to each other. For e.g. ability is synonymous with capability. Words having opposite or contrasting meanings are called antonyms. For e.g. good and bad, big and small, light and dark, etc.

Complete answer:
To find another word having a similar meaning to ‘redundant’, we must first understand the meaning of this word itself. The word ‘redundant’ means, ‘something that is no longer needed or useful’. For e.g. Mathematical skills have become redundant since the advent of computers.

It is also used to refer to people, ‘when someone is no longer employed as there is no more work’. For e.g. More and more of the staff were made redundant as the business began to shrink.
In the case of words and language, ‘redundant’ also refers to ‘words or sentence which can be omitted without loss of meaning or function. For e.g. Get rid of all the redundant statements in your article.

Words similar to ‘redundant’ are unnecessary, superfluous, inessential, needless, unneeded, unwanted, useless, etc.

Note: Some opposite words of the ‘redundant’ are; essential, necessary, etc.
We can learn about synonyms or words with similar meanings from a different kind of dictionary called the thesaurus. The first book with synonyms and related concepts was written by Philo of Byblos in the 1st Century. This book got modified and later came to be known as the thesaurus. The word ‘thesaurus’ came to be used for the first time in 1852, by Peter Mark Roget who wrote a book called ‘Roget’s Thesaurus’.