pleonast

English

Noun

pleonast (plural pleonasts)

  1. (rare) One who is addicted to pleonasm, or redundancy in speech or writing.
    • 1863, Charles Reade, Hard Cash:
      the mellifluous pleonast had done oiling his paradox with fresh polysyllables

References
  • pleonast in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

Romanian

Etymology

From French pléonaste.

Noun

pleonast n (uncountable)

  1. pleonaste

Declension
declension of pleonast (singular only)
singular
n gender indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) pleonast pleonastul
genitive/dative (unui) pleonast pleonastului
vocative pleonastule
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