repetitive

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/ɹɪˈpɛtɪtɪv/

adjective

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

“The lecture was too repetitive and lost its impact.”

Similar
recurrentrepetitioushabitualmonotonousperennialrecurringrepeatingrepetitional
Opposite
nonrecurrentnonrecurringnonrepeatingnonrepetitionalnonrepetitive
OriginLatin repetitus →
CommonScrabble 15
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Meanings

adjectiverepetitive (comparative more repetitive, superlative most repetitive)

comparative more repetitive · superlative most repetitive

  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

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveHappening many times in a similar way; containing repetition; repeating.

Similar
recurrentrepetitioushabitualmonotonousperennialrecurringrepeatingrepetitionalrepetitionary
Opposite
nonrecurrentnonrecurringnonrepeatingnonrepetitional

More synonyms by meaning

adjectiverepetitive and persistent

Similar
insistentcontinual

adjectivecharacterized by repetition

Similar
repetitiousiterativereiterative
Opposite
nonrepetitive
Also see
continualhabitualinsistentiterativemonotonousperennialrecurrentrecurringredundantreiterantreiterativerepetitiousrepetitory

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Latinrepetitus
  2. Englishrepetitive

From Latin repetitus, with the suffix -ive.

More words from Latin

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Translations

Bulgarian повтарящ се, сериен
  • повтарящ се (povtarjašt se)happening many times in a similar way
  • сериен (serien)happening many times in a similar way
Catalan repetitiu
  • repetitiuhappening many times in a similar way
Finnish toistava, toistuva
  • toistavahappening many times in a similar way
  • toistuvahappening many times in a similar way
  • itseään toistavahappening many times in a similar way
French répétitif
  • répétitifhappening many times in a similar way
German repetitiv
  • repetitivhappening many times in a similar way
Greek επαναληπτικός
  • επαναληπτικός (epanaliptikós)happening many times in a similar way
Hungarian ismétlődő, repetitív
  • ismétlődőhappening many times in a similar way
  • repetitívhappening many times in a similar way
Italian ripetitivo
  • ripetitivohappening many times in a similar way
Persian تکراری
  • تکراری (tekrâri)happening many times in a similar way
Portuguese repetitivo
  • repetitivohappening many times in a similar way
Spanish repetitivo
  • repetitivohappening many times in a similar way
Thai ซ้ำซาก
  • ซ้ำซาก (sám-sâak)happening many times in a similar way
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APA

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Chicago

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