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redux

/ˈɹiːdʌks/

redux adjective: of a topic, redone, restored, brought back, or revisited.

Adjective

redux (not comparable)

  1. (attributive, postpositional) Of a topic, redone, restored, brought back, or revisited.
    • After an unusually cold August, September felt like summer redux as a heatwave sent temperatures soaring.
    • 10. It's Microsoft Redux All Over Again. Maybe the fat lady hasn't crooned the final note, but the petite lady who carried the most weight, US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, wrote the denouement to the Microsoft antitrust fiasco.2004, Robert A. Levy, Shakedown: How Corporations, Government, and Trial Lawyers Abuse the Judicial Process, page 265

Noun

redux (plural reduxes)

  1. A theme or topic that is redone, restored, brought back, or revisited.
    • With the exception of the leader's boppish title tune, the album is filled with anarchistic jazz reduxes of Nichols, Ellington, Kurt Weill, and Cole Porter.2004, Todd S. Jenkins, Free Jazz and Free Improvisation: An Encyclopedia, page 234
    • The band chased the video up with an acoustic redux of the track, as well as performances on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Macy’s annual Fourth Of July Spectacular in New York.2021 July 23, Ellie Robinson, “Coldplay shoot for the stars with their cinematic new track ‘Coloratura’”, in NME

redux meaning in Tamil

redux in Tamil

புதுப்பித்தல்

Forms of redux

pluralreduxes

Origin of redux

From Latin redux (“that returns”), from redūcō (“to bring back”). The word may have re-entered popular usage in the United States with the publication of the novel Rabbit Redux (1971) by John Updike, although it had previously been used in medicine, literary titles, and product names.

Words that rhyme with redux

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Questions about redux

What does redux mean?
Redux means of a topic, redone, restored, brought back, or revisited.
What is redux in Tamil?
Redux in Tamil is புதுப்பித்தல். See Redux meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is redux?
Redux can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce redux?
Redux is pronounced /ˈɹiːdʌks/.

Words near redux in the dictionary

  1. reduvid
  2. reduvids
  3. reduviid
  4. reduviids
  5. reduvioid
  6. redux
  7. reduxes
  8. redward
  9. redwards
  10. redware
  11. redwares

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Adapted from Wiktionary: redux (page history and authors); redux (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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