repetitive

What it means

1. Happening many times in a similar way; containing repetition; repeating.

   The lecture was too repetitive and lost its impact.

   3 more examples

   He kept repeating the same repetitive tasks without making progress.

   The movie was criticized for its repetitive scenes and predictable plot.

   An author who produced over fifty books and innumerable articles on all kinds of subjects could not be a philosopher of the first rank. He was also a bad writer: his principal work is diffuse, chaotic, vague, and repetitive.

   1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 434

   Synonyms: recurrent, repetitious, habitual, monotonous, perennial, recurring, repeating, repetitional

In a sentence

The lecture was too repetitive and lost its impact.

Where it comes from

1. Latinrepetitus
2. Englishrepetitive

From Latin repetitus, with the suffix -ive.