tautological

Infinitive complement

• suggest: It may seem tautological to suggest that getting money to poor people is the solution to poverty.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: It may seem tautological to suggest that getting money to poor people is the solution to poverty.

Modifying Another Word

• almost: This is so obvious as to be almost tautological.
• rather: So, ' to chop and change ' is rather tautological as it just means ' change and change ' .

Modifies a noun

• reasoning: There is more than a hint of tautological reasoning in this statement.
• sense: Categories of this kind are clearly not based on similarity, except in a tautological sense.
• statement: As a tautological statement it can not be used as an argument.