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repetitious
Word definitions for repetitious in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Repetitious \Rep`e*ti"tious\ (-t?sh"?s), a. Repeating; containing repetition. [U.S.] --Dr. T. Dwight.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ repetitious drills EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A simple, maddeningly repetitious vibration, it pulsed out from the crystal, and hypnotized all who came within its spell. ▪ Another variation on repetitious dieting involves ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. marked by tedious repetition [syn: iterative , reiterative , repetitive ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Characterized by repetition, especially excessive repetition.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"employing repetition," often with suggestions of tiresomeness, 1670s, from Latin repetit- , past participle stem of repetere "do or say again" (see repeat (v.)) + -ous . Related: Repetitiously ; repetitiousness .
Usage examples of repetitious.
But disciplining the flesh in this kind of way is a repetitious and never-ending task.
Orientalism staked its existence, not upon its openness, its receptivity to the Orient, but rather on its internal, repetitious consistency about its constitutive will-to-power over the Orient.
Sayjak grapple his foes, squeezing hard, rising to his full height and shaking her with all the force of muscles trained not by repetitious lifting of weights but by climbing trees, swimming in deep lakes, and wrestling with a dog made of iron, steel, and old carpet.
The Klingons were dangerous, but distressingly repetitious, and the Andorians too flighty for a real contest.
Only from this unclouded vantage, we maintained, could humanity finally rise out of its repetitious history of turds and turmoil and realize that mighty goal of One World.
Only the continuous moaning, and the persistent, repetitious attempts to restrain his arms and legs.
To anyone else, it would be a boringly repetitious routine of heating and cooling, checking for boiling points and melting points, fractionating and filtering.
The shimmering asphalt coasted over a parched and repetitious plateau, spotted with stunted sagebrush and saltweed and creosote bush.
The figure, though surprising and frequently challenged, appeared to be accurate, for simps were quite happy to work fifteen hours a day and did not get bored by the most menial and repetitious tasks.
It is the knowledge of the unendingness and of the repetitious uselessness, the do it up so it can be done again, that makes Fatigue fatigue.
So the vast majority live out their lives in dull, repetitious desk jobs, with only 3DT, euphorics, and cabaret passes for pleasures.
Directly across the street 148 was the building of the California Public Utilities Commission, which would later conduct its own hearings on Tunipah, in large part repetitious.
They became so repetitious that Drew no longer flinched from the sound of the various objects as they fell on the floor in the darkness.
The song dealt with the problems of a man attempting to content one hundred bond-maids, one after the other, it is rather repetitious, and the number of bondmaids decreases by one in each round.
The authentic Green Corn Dance, a sacred Seminole rite, was politely discarded as too solemn and repetitious.