reiterative

Examples

• All

• The PBL method has five primary characteristics: problem-based, student-centered, reiterative, small group, and facilitation.

  Academic text (2009)

• The process is, of course, a complexly reiterative one.

  Academic text (1993)

• Within the piano variations, one could already perceive some reiterative accents of the bass notes, which were stressing the first, third, and fourth beats.

  Academic text (1996)

• Further emphasis on the distinction between the two types of behavior was noted in Kennedy's (1985) definition of foraging as "reiterative locomotory activity that is readily interrupted by an encounter with a resource item of one particular kind."

  Academic text (2007)

• In "Trinquenme," there is throughout the initial paragraphs a carefully orchestrated incoherence in the narrator's account of what has transpired between him and the old man that is enhanced by the reiterative play of the doubles theme.

  Academic text (1995)

• As Judith Butler notes, the performative "must be understood not as a singular or deliberate 'act,' but rather as the reiterative and citational practice by which discourse produces the effects that it names" (Butler, Bodies 2).

  Academic text (2017)

• The artist used a reiterative technique to emphasize the themes in her paintings.

• His training method was reiterative, allowing athletes to practice the same skills repeatedly for improvement.

• The teacher developed a reiterative approach to problem-solving, encouraging students to revisit concepts frequently.

Synonyms

R

repetitive

vsreiterative

58 3.5

Doing the same thing again and again

is about frequent recurrence of actions or ongoing processes

C

cyclical

vsreiterative

28 5.1

Happening again and again at regular times

focuses on repetition in actions not only on scheduled regular returns

R

recurrent

vsreiterative

12 4.7

Happening again and again, often at regular times

is about frequent recurrence of actions rather than predictable periodic return

R

repetitious

vsreiterative

6 5.1

Showing the same thing again and again in a boring way

is neutral about recurrence and does not carry a negative tone

I

iterative

vsreiterative

5 6.6

Happening again and again to improve something

is about frequent recurrence of actions rather than cycle structure

C

cyclic

vsreiterative

5 4.8

Happens repeatedly in a regular pattern

is about frequent recurrence of actions rather than fixed timing patterns

D

duplicative

vsreiterative

3 7.0

Doing the same thing again when it is not needed

is about repeated actions and processes rather than mere copying

R

reiterant

vsreiterative

8.6

Doing the same thing again and again

is more general and stresses frequent recurrence in processes

R

repeated

vsreiterative

1.0

Happening again and again

is broader highlighting frequent recurrence in ongoing actions or processes

R

recurring

vsreiterative

3.3

Happens again and again over time

emphasizes frequent recurrence in actions rather than long time gaps

R

reoccurring

vsreiterative

4.1

Happening again and again

focuses on frequent recurrence in processes rather than single occasional returns

R

replicative

vsreiterative

• Specialized

7.5

In grammar, showing an action that happens again or often

is general about actions and processes that occur again not grammar

P

perseverative

vsreiterative

• Specialized

8.6

Being unable to stop repeating actions, speech, or thoughts

is neutral about frequency and does not imply excess or pathology

Antonyms

S

singular

34 5.6

The only one of its kind

U

unrepeated

5.5

Happens only once and not again

How Repetitive

repetitive

58 3.5

reiterative

1 7.4

recurring

3.3

occasional

285 2.8

sporadic

35 7.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology