pleonastic

adjective

Definition of pleonasticnext
as in rambling
using or containing more words than necessary to express an idea a writer whose penchant for pleonastic phrasings would suggest that he is in dire need of a hard-nosed editor

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pleonastic
  1. rambling
  2. exaggerated
  3. prolix
  4. talkative
  5. redundant
  6. verbose
Adjective
  • In the early morning hours of Dec. 26, 1996, Patsy Ramsey called 911 to report her 6-year-old daughter JonBenét missing, and found a rambling ransom note left inside their Boulder, Colorado, home.
    Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2024
  • His statement came a day after the release of the Netflix series, which takes viewers back to the morning after Christmas 28 years ago, when JonBenét’s mother called 911 to report finding a rambling ransom note and her daughter missing.
    Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 3 Dec. 2024
Definition of rambling
Adjective
  • The reports of Andrews’ 2024 demise were greatly exaggerated.
    Bill Reinhard, New York Daily News, 9 Jan. 2025
  • However, the study cautions that claims of enhanced accuracy through advanced computational methods are often exaggerated.
    Bruce Gil, Quartz, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of exaggerated
Adjective
  • Words, including those of artists themselves—as prolix in their way as critics, curators, and historians—can serve vision but can also deflect from it.
    Barry Schwabsky, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • In 1949, a young American artist named Ray Johnson left Black Mountain College near Asheville, N.C., moved to New York City and began to explore his prolix talents, both visual and verbal.
    Roberta Smith, New York Times, 30 May 2024
Definition of prolix
Adjective
  • Claypool has missed the last five practices, and even while on the sideline during Monday’s practice, his talkative nature with some of the defenders did not go over well with the other side of the ball.
    Joe Buscaglia, The Athletic, 5 Aug. 2024
  • In 2001's Bridget Jones's Diary, what starts as a not-so-meet-cute between the talkative Bridget (Renée Zellweger) and the offensive Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) at a New Year's Eve party unfolds into one of the most swoon-worthy rom-coms the genre has to offer.
    Skyler Caruso, People.com, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of talkative
Adjective
  • Reduce the costs, noise and security risks that come with redundant tooling.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
  • His defensive-minded presence is a bit redundant on the current Canucks’ blue line which is already overflowing with simple, stay-at-home options.
    Harman Dayal, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025
Definition of redundant
Adjective
  • The lawmaker said that the usable speech only came after four or five prompts that generated unusable material, either too verbose or oddly phrased, an illustration of how important the input into the AI is to the result.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Jan. 2023
  • The verbose coach was at somewhat of a loss for words, opting to forgo opening remarks in his postgame press conference and instead diving right into questions.
    Tom Green | tgreen@al.com, al, 18 Jan. 2023
Definition of verbose
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