repetitious
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5.1
- adjective
- /ˌrɛpɪˈtɪʃəs/
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repetitivo
- As a result, students may well be exposed to an ineffective, repetitious program that offers few, if any, challenges.
- become repetitious
Trump was exhausted, repetitious and just awful.
- Trump was exhausted, repetitious and just awful.
- So, But yeah, anything you do more repetitious becomes more familiar.
- And yes, you get very good at at doing what you're doing, but it gets repetitious, it gets repetitious, it gets boring.
- Algieri made a repetitious and dull film, a series of them in fact, for whom he knew not and does not to to this day.
- If I say read in sung, that's the repetitious voice.
- Sometimes it can be repetitious, smaller hits that can have an impact, yes.
- Your silence and your arms are my own, your verses repetitious as grains of oat tusversos, tieneno, grano, repetido de la vena.
Examples
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When school days become tediously repetitious, students drift off into a world of daydreams.
Academic text (2001) -
But just going from one to another can become repetitious and eventually boring.
Academic text (1996) -
So, repetitious as the exercise might be, the answer is yeah, you do have to do all three.
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For many others, it means only repetitious routine work.
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Sometimes it can be repetitious, smaller hits that can have an impact, yes.
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While some of the statements may seem repetitious, take your time and try to be as honest as possible.
Academic text (2008) -
The problems are very simple, they're very repetitious, and the examples are very clean.
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The songs all suffered from repetitious yet forgettable melodies and lyrics.
Academic text (1997) -
The reports are written in vague, repetitious generalities, full of unsupported assertions, unexamined assumptions, and undefined terms.
Academic text (2002) -
The repetitious nature of the song made it hard to listen to for long periods.
Synonyms
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4.4
Boring and repetitive, making you feel mentally tired
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3.5
Doing the same thing again and again
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6.6
Not new or interesting because it is used too often
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7.2
Used so often that it feels boring
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5.3
Something that is boring because it has no variety
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7.6
No longer original or interesting because people use it so often
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7.0
Doing the same thing again when it is not needed
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4.6
A phrase or idea used so often that it is no longer interesting
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7.0
Makes you feel tired or bored because it is repetitive
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5.4
Not new because people use it too often and it is easy to guess
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7.4
Using the same words or idea again and again
In grammar, showing an action that happens again or often
Being unable to stop repeating actions, speech, or thoughts
Boring because it uses words or ideas people hear many times
Antonyms
How Repetitive
Surface Forms
Morphology
repetitious = repetition (transparent) = repetition + ious
Formed from the noun 'repetition' with the productive adjective-forming suffix '-ious', so the meaning 'characterized by repetition' is directly derivable.
Etymology
Repetitious comes from the common word repeat; the part re- means 'again' and repeat means 'to do or say again'. So repetitious describes something that happens 'again and again', which is why it often feels boring or unnecessary.