Crossword-Solution: PLEONASM
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Pleonasm | n. | Redundancy of language in speaking or writing; the use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; as, I saw it with my own eyes. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PLEONASM | anagram | NEOPLASM, PSALMONE |
We have 25 clues for the answer “PLEONASM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Use of more words than necessary | 1 answer |
| The use of more words than is necessary to express meaning | 1 answer |
| Redundancy: Grammar. | 1 answer |
| Redundancy, from the Greek | 1 answer |
| "The very identical thing itself." | 1 answer |
| using more words than necessary | 2 answers |
| Scurrility. | 6 answers |
| verboseness | 17 answers |
| periphrasis | 17 answers |
| circumlocution | 18 answers |
| verbal effusion | 18 answers |
| using euphemisms | 18 answers |
| prolixity | 18 answers |
| tautology | 19 answers |
| Verbiage | 19 answers |
| verbosity | 19 answers |
| wordiness | 20 answers |
| verbalism | 25 answers |
| loquacity | 25 answers |
| windiness | 25 answers |
| diffuseness | 28 answers |
| expletive | 34 answers |
| redundancy | 36 answers |
| output | 38 answers |
| roundabout | 40 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PLEONASM (5)
This consideration will remove the supposed pleonasm in the Saxon phrase, which is here literally translated.
Look out for “la main de fer sous le gant de velours,” (which I printed in English the other day without quotation-marks, thinking whether any _scarabæus criticus_ would add this to his globe and roll in glory with it into the newspapers,—which he didn’t do it, in the charming pleonasm of the London language, and therefore I claim the sole merit of exposing the same.) A good many powerful and dangerous people have had a decided dash of dandyism about them.
Look out for "la main de fer sous le gant de velours," (which I printed in English the other day without quotation-marks, thinking whether any scarabaeus criticus would add this to his globe and roll in glory with it into the newspapers, --which he didn't do it, in the charming pleonasm of the London language, and therefore I claim the sole merit of exposing the same.) A good many powerful and dangerous people have had a decided dash of dandyism about them.
What subtlety for a child! "Le corbeau, honteux et confus" (The crow, ashamed and confused).--A nothing pleonasm, and there is no excuse for it this time.
His object was, under the fiction of an independent multitude, to smuggle in a virtual unity; for his court physicians are no plural body in effect and virtue, but a mere pleonasm and a tautology.
Quotes with PLEONASM (2)
It was truer to my father to let the songs he'd sung die with him, little by little, averse at a time. How could these art-mongers constantly ignore the mortality of beauty, a pleonasm if ever I'd heard one?
It’s not words, but years we should be editing. Remember: time spent on bad art is a form of redundancy, doing the same thing twice is a form of tautology, and wasting precious moments complaining about life is a form of pleonasm. We should all learn to live our lives concisely.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1947–2018).