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repetitive
[ ri-pet-i-tiv ]
repetitive
/ rɪˈpɛtɪtɪv /
adjective
- characterized by or given to unnecessary repetition; boring
dull, repetitive work
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Derived Forms
- reˈpetitiveness, noun
- reˈpetitively, adverb
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Other Words From
- re·peti·tive·ly adverb
- re·peti·tive·ness noun
- nonre·peti·tive adjective
- nonre·peti·tive·ly adverb
- unre·peti·tive adjective
- unre·peti·tive·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of repetitive1
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Example Sentences
Even extreme beauty — and even the best of bodies and most involving pictures of them — can become repetitive.
What was once sexy and mildly transgressive—the perfect antidote to Twilight—devolved into a repetitive, unimaginative mess.
Migrant shipwrecks and refugee death stories become repetitive quickly.
There are videos and performances that often deal with representations of the human body through repetitive tasks.
But apparently there are scoops of great magnitude to be gleaned from these repetitive pictures.
We have filled the foreground in recent years with new automatic machines, new subdivisions of repetitive process.
It was no pretentious group of houses, nor was it a repetitive design out of some subdividing contractor's greedy mind.
We learn little or nothing from habit excepting repetitive imitation.
Others have the repetitive pattern of bushes, flowers, or the pear, on a field of rich colour.
The thing to do was to make the surface thoughts automatically repetitive.
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