tautologous
/tawt-l-oj-i-kuhl/US // ˌtɔt lˈɒdʒ ɪ kəl //
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adj.形容词 adjective
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- : needlessly repetitive without adding information or clarity:Third-world communist regimes, with tautological insistence, call themselves "people's democracies."
- : defined in terms of itself:Some would argue that the phrase ''survival of the fittest'' is tautological, in that the fittest are defined as those that survive to reproduce.
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To say that, if it increases, his wages increase is to be simply tautologous.
The phrase pre-established harmony is, strictly speaking, tautologous.
Or if the first expression be preferred, the second may be omitted, as perfectly tautologous.
I am (to adopt a phrase which is to me tautologous) an orthodox Jew.'
And the tautologous, useless nature of the hypothesis in the second forces the theory back to the first view.
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