Word.ws English Dictionary

tautologize

tautologize verb: to speak or write using tautology; to rephrase something.

Verb

tautologize (third-person singular simple present tautologizes, present participle tautologizing, simple past and past participle tautologized)

  1. To speak or write using tautology; to rephrase something.

Forms of tautologize

third-person singular presenttautologizes
present participletautologizing
past participletautologized
pasttautologized

Origin of tautologize

From tautology + -ize.

Questions about tautologize

What does tautologize mean?
Tautologize means to speak or write using tautology; to rephrase something.
What part of speech is tautologize?
Tautologize is a verb.
What is the past tense of tautologize?
The past tense of tautologize is tautologized.

Words near tautologize in the dictionary

  1. tautologising
  2. tautologism
  3. tautologisms
  4. tautologist
  5. tautologists
  6. tautologize
  7. tautologized
  8. tautologizes
  9. tautologizing
  10. tautologous
  11. tautologously

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tautologize (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “tautologize.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/tautologize. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.