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tautological

tautological adjective: of, relating to, or using tautology.

Adjective

tautological (comparative more tautological, superlative most tautological)

  1. Of, relating to, or using tautology.
  2. Using repetition or excessive wordiness; pleonastic or circumlocutionary.

tautological meaning in Sanskrit

tautological in Sanskrit

tautological, synonymous, having one meaning
एकार्थ ekārtha

Forms of tautological

comparativemore tautological
superlativemost tautological

Origin of tautological

From tautology + -ical.

Words formed from tautological

Questions about tautological

What does tautological mean?
Tautological means of, relating to, or using tautology.
What is tautological in Sanskrit?
Tautological in Sanskrit is एकार्थ (ekārtha). See Tautological meaning in Sanskrit.
What part of speech is tautological?
Tautological is an adjective.

Words near tautological in the dictionary

  1. tautograms
  2. tautogs
  3. tautoko
  4. tautologia
  5. tautologic
  6. tautological
  7. tautologically
  8. tautologicalness
  9. tautologies
  10. tautologise
  11. tautologised

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tautological (page history and authors); एकार्थ (Sanskrit) (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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