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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
tautological is an adjective meaning "repetition of same sense in different words". It carries one recorded sense.
repetition of same sense in different words
“`a true fact' and `a free gift' are pleonastic expressions”
“the phrase `a beginner who has just started' is tautological”
“at the risk of being redundant I return to my original proposition”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tautological come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.