Usually means: Unnecessarily repetitive, essentially the same.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word duplicative:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. duplicative: Merriam-Webster
  2. duplicative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. duplicative: Collins English Dictionary
  4. duplicative: Wordnik
  5. duplicative: Wiktionary
  6. Duplicative, duplicative: Dictionary.com
  7. Duplicative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. duplicative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Duplicative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. duplicative: FreeDictionary.org
  11. duplicative: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. duplicative: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. duplicative: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (duplicative)

▸ adjective:  Of, related to, or being a duplicate.

Similar:
repetitionary, repetitional, repeating, multiplicational, replicative, isomorphous, parodistic, comparative, twinsy, analogic, more...

Opposite:
unique, singular, original, non-repetitive

Types:
repetitive, redundant, unnecessary, superfluous, more...

Phrases:
duplicative portfolio, more...

Colors:
    gray,     silver,     charcoal,     pewter,     graphite, more...

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Similar:
repetitionary, repetitional, repeating, multiplicational, replicative, isomorphous, parodistic, comparative, twinsy, analogic, more...

Opposite:
unique, singular, original, non-repetitive

Types:
repetitive, redundant, unnecessary, superfluous, more...

Phrases:
duplicative portfolio, more...

Colors:
    gray,     silver,     charcoal,     pewter,     graphite, more...



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