repetitive

Examples

• All

• My making process is very repetitive and painstaking.

• And it is, it is a slow, repetitive, extremely boring job.

  Veritasium

• But it seems like it's very repetitive what they eat.

• And this is where it starts getting a little bit repetitive, but it works.

• But if it became a repetitive thing, it's a problem.

• We get stuck in these sort of repetitive patterns of thinking.

• And in the last step, the repetitive task of design adjustment is automated.

  Academic text (1994)

• I have a bigger challenge because I don't want to be repetitive.

  The Magician of Lublin (1979)

• It's very tedious, it's repetitive, but it's irrefutable.

• But how can you do that if it's just boring, mundane, repetitive, burdensome work?

Synonyms

C

cyclical

vsrepetitive

28 5.1

Happening again and again at regular times

applies to doing the same thing again and again without strict timing

R

recurrent

vsrepetitive

12 4.7

Happening again and again, often at regular times

focuses on continuous same actions rather than occasional appearances over time

R

repetitious

vsrepetitive

6 5.1

Showing the same thing again and again in a boring way

is neutral and simply describes doing the same thing again and again

I

iterative

vsrepetitive

5 6.6

Happening again and again to improve something

focuses on general doing the same thing rather than cyclical structure

C

cyclic

vsrepetitive

5 4.8

Happens repeatedly in a regular pattern

describes doing the same thing without implying a fixed or regular schedule

R

reiterative

vsrepetitive

1 7.4

Using the same words or idea again and again

is the general adjective for doing the same thing again and again

R

reiterant

vsrepetitive

8.6

Doing the same thing again and again

is about the overall quality of doing the same thing again and again

R

repeated

vsrepetitive

1.0

Happening again and again

describes a lasting pattern rather than single events that occur again

R

recurring

vsrepetitive

3.3

Happens again and again over time

emphasizes ongoing sameness as a quality not just occasional returns

R

reoccurring

vsrepetitive

4.1

Happening again and again

describes steady doing of the same action with clear timing

P

perseverative

vsrepetitive

• Specialized

8.6

Being unable to stop repeating actions, speech, or thoughts

is neutral and simply describes doing the same thing again without implying excess

Antonyms

D

diverse

297 3.4

Made of many different kinds

V

varied

54 3.3

Containing many different kinds, not all the same

N

nonrepetitive

6.1

That does not happen again in the same way or pattern

How Repetitive

monotonous

14 5.3

repetitive

58 3.5

sporadic

35 7.0

infrequent

13 4.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology