1. (a.) Using more words than are necessary; excessive\; pleonastic.

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

abundant battological circumlocutory copious de trop diffuse diffusive dispensable duplicative echoic echoing effusive excess excessive expendable expletive extra extravagant exuberant fecund formless gratuitous gushing gushy imitative in excess inessential iterative long-winded needless nonessential overflowing parrotlike pleonastic prodigal productive profuse profusive prolific prolix recapitulative reduplicative reechoing reiterant reiterative repeating repetitional repetitionary repetitious repetitive roundabout spare superabundant supererogatory superfluous supernumerary surplus tautologic tautological tautologous teeming to spare uncalled-for unessential unnecessary unneeded unwanted verbose windy wordy