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• s  repetition of same sense in different words
  the phrase `a beginner who has just started' is tautological

• The English question paper in a competitive exam carried this tautological warning: Answers only in English!
• While inflating the tyres of her car, Kate saw this tautological freebie offer: Best deals for gas, air is free.
• First, I'm slightly puzzled about the need to print the word England across the horizontal red stripe: this seems almost tautological, akin to jars of peanut butter that bear the legend: WARNING — THIS PRODUCT MAY CONTAIN NUTS. .

• pleonastic
• redundant
• tautologic

Quotes

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• Karl Popper in American Chronicle
  This view brings to mind what Sir Karl Popper wrote in his Unended Quest (Oxford: Rutledge, 1991): "To say that a species now living is adapted to its environment is, in fact, almost tautological : There is hardly any possibility of testing a theory...
• Amit Chaudhuri in The Nation.
  The assumption, Chaudhuri argued, "is the tautological idea that since India is a huge baggy monster, the novels that accommodate it have to be baggy monsters as well."