Crossword-Solution: TAUTOLOGICAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tautological | a. | Involving tautology; having the same signification; as, tautological expression. |
We have 27 clues for the answer “TAUTOLOGICAL”
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| Like the names of 18-, 25-, 40- and 50- Across vis-à-vis the bracketed languages | 1 answer |
| excrescent | 30 answers |
| plethoric | 32 answers |
| Super-abundant | 32 answers |
| Superfluous | 42 answers |
| Long-winded | 43 answers |
| Needless | 44 answers |
| Growing ___ | 46 answers |
| unnecessary | 51 answers |
| redundant | 55 answers |
| grandiloquent | 55 answers |
| profuse | 59 answers |
| Surplus | 63 answers |
| Overflowing | 63 answers |
| pleonastic | 64 answers |
| repetitive | 65 answers |
| Loquacious | 66 answers |
| Abounding | 68 answers |
| Wordy | 68 answers |
| chatty | 68 answers |
| gabby | 68 answers |
| Garrulous | 68 answers |
| Voluble | 69 answers |
| Prolix | 69 answers |
| Excess | 69 answers |
| Effusive | 71 answers |
| Tedious | 76 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERATE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TAUTOLOGICAL (5)
Conventional women--but was not the phrase tautological? In the few females who have liberated their souls, was not much of the woman inevitably sacrificed, and would it not be so for long years to come? On the other hand, such a one as Sidwell might be held a perfect creature, perfect in relation to a certain stage of human development.
But in English, when we have used a word a couple of times in a paragraph, we imagine we are growing tautological, and so we are weak enough to exchange it for some other word which only approximates exactness, to escape what we wrongly fancy is a greater blemish.
The Cartesian Cogito ergo sum is objectionable, because either the Cogito is used extra gradum, and then it is involved to the sum and is tautological; or it is taken as a particular mode or dignity, and then it is subordinated to the sum as the species to the genus, or rather as a particular modification to the subject modified; and not pre- ordinated as the arguments seem to require.
Here is our first rough list of the questions that confront the modern man--a disorderly, deficient, and tautological list, no doubt, to which any reader can add many hundred more.
The history of ancient tragedy ends with Euripides, although there were a number of still later tragedians; Agathon, for instance, whom Aristophanes describes as fragrant with ointment and crowned with flowers, and in whose mouth Plato, in his _Symposium_, puts a discourse in the taste of the sophist Gorgias, full of the most exquisite ornaments and empty tautological antitheses.
Quotes with TAUTOLOGICAL (3)
From the cave to the skyscraper, from the club to weapons of mass destruction, from the tautological life of the tribe to the era of globalization, the fictions of literature have multiplied human experiences, preventing us from succumbing to lethargy, self-absorption, resignation. Nothing has sown so much disquiet, so disturbed our imagination and our desires as the life of lies we add, thanks to literature, to the one we have, so we can be protagonists in the great adventur…
The limits of freedom of expression is tautological: it ends at the point where it begins to affect the freedom of expression of others.
At a certain point talk about 'essence' and 'oneness' and the universal becomes more tautological than inquisitive.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2024).