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repetitive

[ ri-pet-i-tiv ]

adjective

  1. pertaining to or characterized by repetition.


repetitive

/ rɪˈpɛtɪtɪv /

adjective

  1. characterized by or given to unnecessary repetition; boring

    dull, repetitive work

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • reˈpetitiveness, noun
  • reˈpetitively, adverb
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Other Words From

  • re·peti·tive·ly adverb
  • re·peti·tive·ness noun
  • nonre·peti·tive adjective
  • nonre·peti·tive·ly adverb
  • unre·peti·tive adjective
  • unre·peti·tive·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of repetitive1

First recorded in 1830–40; from Latin repetīt(us) “attacked again” (past participle of repetere “to attack again, demand return of”; repeat ) + -ive
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Example Sentences

It was there that Hollerith got the idea to mechanize the repetitive tabulations involved in census work.

That’s because the immutability of rituals — their fixed and often repetitive nature — is core to their definition, Schroeder and others say.

Patients either speak less or say less when they speak, using vague, repetitive, stereotypical phrases.

Scientists have been slowly filling in the gaps, but certain portions that feature repetitive sequences going on for millions of base pairs have long been seen as intractable.

When applied to these highly repetitive sections it becomes almost impossible to distinguish the pieces, so putting them back together in the right order is extremely difficult.

Even extreme beauty — and even the best of bodies and most involving pictures of them — can become repetitive.

What was once sexy and mildly transgressive—the perfect antidote to Twilight—devolved into a repetitive, unimaginative mess.

Migrant shipwrecks and refugee death stories become repetitive quickly.

There are videos and performances that often deal with representations of the human body through repetitive tasks.

But apparently there are scoops of great magnitude to be gleaned from these repetitive pictures.

We have filled the foreground in recent years with new automatic machines, new subdivisions of repetitive process.

It was no pretentious group of houses, nor was it a repetitive design out of some subdividing contractor's greedy mind.

We learn little or nothing from habit excepting repetitive imitation.

Others have the repetitive pattern of bushes, flowers, or the pear, on a field of rich colour.

The thing to do was to make the surface thoughts automatically repetitive.

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