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Define Pleonasm Meaning

Pleonasm
A pleonasm is a redundant description. It is describing a word using adjectives that apply to it's inherent characteristics.

Person 1: Tim is a stupid idiot.

Person 2: As opposed to a smart idiot? You just used a pleonasm.
By Tierney
Pleonasm
Unusual ghostlike creature who frequents outhouses and continues to repeat the same word.

Jake heard the pleonasm through the half moon in the door, the night the comet struck.
By Cherish
Pleonasm
the use of more words than those necessary to denote mere sense : redundancy

Instead of getting straight to the central idea, she used pleonasm because she thought more words made it better
By Tiphany