Repetitious
1Repetitious — Rep e*ti tious ( t?sh ?s), a. Repeating; containing repetition. [U.S.] Dr. T. Dwight. [1913 Webster] …
2repetitious — I adjective duplicative, echoic, echoing, harping, incessant, invariable, monotonous, pleonastic, pleonastical, recapitulatory, recurrent, recurring, redundant, reduplicative, reechoed, reiterant, reiterative, repeated, repeating, repetitional,… …
3repetitious — 1670s, from L. repetit , pp. stem of repetere (see REPEAT (Cf. repeat)) + OUS (Cf. ous) …
4repetitious — [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 …
5repetitious — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ having too much repetition; repetitive. DERIVATIVES repetitiously adverb repetitiousness noun …
6repetitious — [rep΄ə tishəs] adj. full of or characterized by repetition, esp. tiresome or boring repetition repetitiously adv. repetitiousness n …
7repetitious — 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… …
8repetitious — [[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:… …
9repetitious — 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] * * * …
10repetitious — 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 …
