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tautological
[ tawt-l-oj-i-kuhl ]
adjective
- (of a phrase) needlessly repetitive without adding information or clarity:
Third-world communist regimes, with tautological insistence, call themselves "people's democracies."
- (especially in logic) 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.
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 迟补耻路迟辞路濒辞驳路颈路肠补濒路濒测 迟补耻路迟辞濒路辞路驳辞耻蝉路濒测 adverb
- 苍辞苍路迟补耻路迟辞路濒辞驳路颈路肠补濒 adjective
- non路迟补耻路迟辞路濒辞驳路颈路肠补濒路濒测 adverb
- 耻苍路迟补耻路迟辞路濒辞驳路颈路肠补濒 adjective
- un路迟补耻路迟辞路濒辞驳路颈路肠补濒路濒测 adverb
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of tautological1
Example Sentences
McCarthy鈥檚 peculiar ambition appears to be entirely tautological: He should have the speakership because he deserves it, not because of what he wants to do with it.
Attempting to define this unique, curvilinear object is a tautological exercise.
Since those programs can go bankrupt only if Congress connives for that to happen, this is a curiously tautological mandate.
鈥淭hat鈥檚 almost tautological,鈥 Weiss said, because rising prices for oil and other commodities are often some of the main reasons for inflation spikes.
鈥淚n fact, the genre people call self-help literature sounds tautological to me; I read all literature as self-help.鈥
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