Roget's Thesaurus

#641. Redundancy

Nouns

redundancy, redundance; too much, too many; superabundance, superfluity, superfluence, saturation; nimiety, transcendency, exuberance, profuseness; profusion etc. (plenty) 639; repletion, enough in all conscience, satis superque [Lat.], lion's share; more than enough etc. 639; plethora, engorgement, congestion, load, surfeit, sickener; turgescence etc. (expansion) 194; overdose, overmeasure, oversupply, overflow; inundation etc. (water) 348; avalanche. accumulation etc. (store) 636; heap etc. 72; drug, drug in the market; glut; crowd; burden. excess; surplus, overplus; epact; margin; remainder etc. 40; duplicate; surplusage, expletive; work of supererogation; bonus, bonanza. luxury; intemperance etc. 954; extravagance etc. (prodigality) 818; exorbitance, lavishment. pleonasm etc. (diffuseness) 573; too many irons in the fire; embarras de richesses [Fr.].

Verbs

superabound, overabound; know no bounds, swarm; meet one at every turn; creep with, crawl with, bristle with; overflow; run over, flow over, well over, brim over; run riot; overrun, overstock, overlay, overcharge, overdose, overfeed, overburden, overload, overdo, overwhelm, overshoot the mark etc. (go beyond) 303; surcharge, supersaturate, gorge, glut, load, drench, whelm, inundate, deluge, flood; drug, drug the market; hepatize. choke, cloy, accloy, suffocate; pile up, lay on thick; impregnate with; lavish etc. (squander) 818. send coals to Newcastle, carry coals to Newcastle, carry owls to Athens; teach one's grandmother to suck eggs; pisces natare docere [Lat.]; kill the slain, gild refined gold, gild the lily, butter one's bread on both sides, put butter upon bacon; employ a steam engine to crack a nut etc. (waste) 638. exaggerate etc. 549; wallow in, roll in etc. (plenty) 639; remain on one's hands, hang heavy on hand, go a begging.

Adjectives

redundant; too much, too many; exuberant, inordinate, superabundant, excessive, overmuch, replete, profuse, lavish; prodigal etc. 818; exorbitant; overweening; extravagant; overcharged etc. v.; supersaturated, drenched, overflowing; running over, running to waste, running down. crammed to overflowing, filled to overflowing; gorged, ready to burst; dropsical, turgid, plethoric; obese etc. 194. superfluous, unnecessary, needless, supervacaneous, uncalled for, to spare, in excess; over and above etc. (remainder) 40; de trop [Fr.]; adscititious etc. (additional) 37; supernumerary etc. (reserve) 636; on one's hands, spare, duplicate, supererogatory, expletive; un peu fort [Fr.].

Adverbs

over, too, over and above; overmuch, too much; too far; without measure, beyond measure, out of measure; with a to spare; over head and ears; up to one's eyes, up to one's ears; extra; beyond the mark etc. (transcursion) 303; acervatim [Lat.].

Phrases

it never rains but it pours; fortuna multis dat nimium nulli satis [Lat.].