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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Planetos, lapstone, polentas

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French pléonaste.

Noun

pleonast n (uncountable)

1. pleonaste

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	pleonast	pleonastul
genitive-dative	pleonast	pleonastului
vocative	pleonastule