Associations to the word «Tautological»

Wiktionary

TAUTOLOGICAL, adjective. Of, relating to, or using tautology
TAUTOLOGICAL, adjective. Using repetition or excessive wordiness; pleonastic or circumlocutionary

Dictionary definition

TAUTOLOGICAL, adjective. 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.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats