Corny vs Redundant - What's the difference?
corny | redundant |
Insipid or trite.
Hackneyed or excessively sentimental.
(obsolete) Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.
* Prior
Containing corn; tasting well of malt.
* Chaucer
(obsolete, UK, slang) tipsy; drunk
(obsolete) Strong, stiff, or hard, like a horn; resembling horn.
* Milton
Superfluous; exceeding what is necessary.
Repetitive or needlessly wordy.
(chiefly, British) Dismissed from employment because no longer needed; as in "rendered redundant".
Duplicating or able to duplicate the function of another component of a system, providing back-up in the event the other component fails.
* 2013 , Tom Denton, Automobile Electrical and Electronic Systems , page 142:
As adjectives the difference between corny and redundant
is that corny is insipid or trite or corny can be (obsolete) strong, stiff, or hard, like a horn; resembling horn while redundant is superfluous; exceeding what is necessary.corny
English
Etymology 1
; in the "hackneyed" sense, from "corn catalogue jokes", reputedly low-quality jokes that were formerly printed in mail-order seed catalogues.Adjective
(er)- The duct tape and wire were a pretty corny solution.
- The movie was okay, but the love scene was really corny .
- He sent a bouquet of twelve red roses and a card: "Roses are red, Violets are blue, Sugar is sweet, And so are you." How corny is that!
- The corny ear.
- A draught of moist and corny ale.
- (Forby)
Synonyms
* (hackneyed or excessively sentimental) kitsch, kitschy, cheesyEtymology 2
(etyl) (lena) .Adjective
(en adjective)- Up stood the corny reed.
Anagrams
*redundant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The two lines are mainly used for redundant and therefore fault-tolerant message transmission, but they can also transmit different messages.