repetitively
- adverb
- /rɪˈpɛtɪtɪvli/
- Her unprompted FPP behaviors demonstrated a slight increase during the second session of the first probe condition; however, she repetitively engaged in the same pretend play behavior during this session.
- experienced repetitively
Just tape can get so annoying to do repetitively.
- Just tape can get so annoying to do repetitively.
- I mean, for me, I've really just been doing the same thing repetitively.
- What are the emotions that you believe people are experiencing most often, most repetitively on a daily basis?
- And she has a piece where she uses the the word whereas repetitively as well.
- I'm also going to consistently and repetitively ask you why you want to do something.
- So really, really learning to repetitively, consistently focus on things that are within your sphere of control.
- Everything you've said would be true if there wasn't some mistake I made in the relationship either once or repetitively.
- She told me repetitively that that that I, she didn't love me.
- I think that we are becoming comfortable with all of the things because we have repetitively already spent time with them.
- But it is it is it, it repetitively, you see, is a healthy dose of charisma.
Examples
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She practiced the piano repetitively to prepare for her recital next week.
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The target state is repetitively cycled from 1 through 4 for the duration of the session.
Academic text (1990) -
If you need something mechanical done repetitively and just right, a machine is better.
Blog text (34) -
What are the emotions that you believe people are experiencing most often, most repetitively on a daily basis?
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For these reasons, it seems reasonable to limit bullying victims to those experiencing bullying frequently and repetitively.
Academic text (2015) -
Industrial robots are pre-programmed to repetitively perform routine tasks with precision and reliability.
Academic text (2011) -
If certain perceptions are repetitively presented, the repetition of the message validates the message.
Academic text (2003) -
Jenny does comment upon her role as observer in ways that repetitively, even compulsively, stress her outsider perspective.
Academic text (2017) -
First, Sam and Brad repetitively name race as important to the storyline (lines 32 and 33).
Academic text (2012) -
Tilting his head to bring his ear closer, Ross heard her articulating nonsense syllables—"ree-aymsor, ree-aym-sor, ree-aym-sor"—repetitively, obsessively.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
Many times in a row
It happens again and again
Happens many times
Many times on different occasions
Happens often at set times
Very often on many occasions
Happens again and again
In a long, boring way that repeats the same things
In a way that repeats at regular times
In a dull, repeated way that is not interesting
Happens again and again at regular times
In a way that repeats information or actions more than needed
How Repetitively
Surface Forms
Morphology
repetitively = repetitive (transparent) = repeat + ive + ly
Formed regularly from the adjective 'repetitive' by adding the productive adverbial suffix '-ly'.
Etymology
Repetitively comes from the simple verb repeat, with the part re- meaning 'again'. So repetitively means doing the same thing 'again and again', often in a regular or boring way.