- repetitious
- adjective Date: 1675 characterized or marked by repetition; especially tediously repeating • repetitiously adverb • repetitiousness noun
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Repetitious — Rep e*ti tious ( t?sh ?s), a. Repeating; containing repetition. [U.S.] Dr. T. Dwight. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
repetitious — I adjective duplicative, echoic, echoing, harping, incessant, invariable, monotonous, pleonastic, pleonastical, recapitulatory, recurrent, recurring, redundant, reduplicative, reechoed, reiterant, reiterative, repeated, repeating, repetitional,… … Law dictionary
repetitious — 1670s, from L. repetit , pp. stem of repetere (see REPEAT (Cf. repeat)) + OUS (Cf. ous) … Etymology dictionary
repetitious — [adj] wordy, tedious alliterative, boring, dull, echoic, iterant, iterative, longwinded, plangent, pleonastic, prolix, recapitulatory, redundant, reiterative, repeating, repetitive, resonant, tautological, verbose, windy; concept 553 Ant. concise … New thesaurus
repetitious — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ having too much repetition; repetitive. DERIVATIVES repetitiously adverb repetitiousness noun … English terms dictionary
repetitious — [rep΄ə tishəs] adj. full of or characterized by repetition, esp. tiresome or boring repetition repetitiously adv. repetitiousness n … English World dictionary
repetitious — repetitive, repetitious The meanings overlap, but repetitive is more than ten times as common as repetitious, and there is a difference of sense: repetitive is a more objective word and means ‘occurring repeatedly’: • A quiet but repetitive… … Modern English usage
repetitious — [[t]re̱pɪtɪ̱ʃəs[/t]] ADJ GRADED (disapproval) Something that is repetitious involves actions or elements that are repeated many times and is therefore boring. The manifesto is long winded, repetitious and often ambiguous or poorly drafted. Syn:… … English dictionary
repetitious — repetitiously, adv. repetitiousnes, n. /rep i tish euhs/, adj. full of repetition, esp. unnecessary and tedious repetition: a repetitious account of their vacation trip. [1665 75; < L repetit(us) (ptp. of repetere to REPEAT) + IOUS] * * * … Universalium
repetitious — rep|e|ti|tious [ˌrepıˈtıʃəs] adj involving the same actions or using the same words many times, in a way that is boring ▪ repetitious work … Dictionary of contemporary English
repetitious — adjective saying the same thing several times: a boring, repetitious style … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
