pleonastic

Adjective

pleonastic (comparative more pleonastic, superlative most pleonastic)

1. (not comparable) Of, or relating to pleonasm.
2. Redundant.
   • A second class of Subject Expressions in English are so-called pleonastic pronouns such as it and there in sentences like:
     (104) (a) It is raining/It is a long way to Dallas/Itʼs time to leave/It is obvious that youʼre right
     (104) (b) There must have been some mistake/There walked into the room the...1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 6, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 319
   • 1988 [Hutchinson Educational], Anna Laura Lepschy, Giulio C. Lepschy, The Italian Language Today, 2nd Edition, Reprinted 1992, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 107,
     In these sentences finchè may be followed by a non which is called ‘pleonastic’ and does not negate the predicate in the subordinate...
3. Characterised by the use of redundant words or an excessive number of words.
   • Before undertaking to show the connection which this papyrus seems to establish between an apparently historical king of the IId dynasty and the hero of a romance of the XIXth (an interval of two or three thousand years), I will give an English version of Dr. Brugsch's German translation...1869, J. P. Lesley, “Notes on Some of the Historical and Mythological Features of the D'Orbiney Papers”, in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 10: January 1865-December 1868...
   • A characteristic intension of a term unambiguously describes the extension of that term. But a characteristic intension of a term may be pleonastic, i.e., it may contain more properties than it is necessary to define the extension of that term. For instance, the intension of the term "square"...1974, Olgierd Wojtasiewicz (translator), Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, Pragmatic Logic, [1965, Logika Pragmatyczna], D. Reidel Publishing Company, PWN-Polish Scientific Publishers, page 44

   Synonyms:

   perissological, pleonastical