tautologous
- a variation of tautological.
- a word derived from tautology.
Example Sentences
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And it has, in the course of that educational process, occurred to me that it does border on tautologous.
From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2021
“Royal regalia” is therefore tautologous, and “the regalia of a bishop” is contradictory.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 5, 2017
As he argued, the term "comic novel" should be acknowledged as tautologous.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 15, 2010
That tautologous definition turned out to be a label for De Gaulle's familiar vision of a loose assemblage of nationalist states.
From Time Magazine Archive
A verbal proposition is necessarily true, because it is tautologous; a contradiction in terms is necessarily false, because it is inconsistent.
From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Read, Carveth
