The Clue
Pleonastic (9 letter answer)
The Answer
REDUNDANT
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Notes
The answer REDUNDANT is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
Definition
REDUNDANT as an adjective:
1. (excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus) = more than is needed, desired, or required; "trying to lose excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary ornamentation"; "it was supererogatory of her to gloat"; "delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words"; "extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts"; "surplus cheese distributed to the needy"
2. (pleonastic, redundant, tautologic, tautological) = repetition of same sense in different words; "`a true fact' and `a free gift' are pleonastic expressions"; "the phrase `a beginner who has just started' is tautological"; "at the risk of being redundant I return to my original proposition"- J.B.Conant