Word of the Day for Thursday February 19, 2009
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tautological \taw-TOL-uh-guh-kuhl\, adjective:
tautological \taw-TOL-uh-guh-kuhl\, adjective:
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unnecessarily or uselessly repetitive
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To say that the B.O. is a socialist liberal Democrat is tautological!
To say that the B.O. is a socialist liberal Democrat is tautological!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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by 1620 from tautologic, from Late Latin tautologia "representation of the same thing", from Greek tautologia, from tautologos "repeating what has been said," from tauto "the same" + -logos "saying," related to legein "to say"
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