Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Given to or characterized by repetition.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Containing repetitions; repeating; repetitious.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Containing repetition; repeating.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Happening many times in a similar way; containing
repetition ;repeating .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective characterized by repetition
- adjective repetitive and persistent
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Examples
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The game has an EA media centre, which allows you to customize your music experience (for which I find the included tracks in this title repetitive and uninspiring), watch videos you unlock, or another FAQ about how to use the media centre.
andPOP.com 2009
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The game has an EA media centre, which allows you to customize your music experience (for which I find the included tracks in this title repetitive and uninspiring), watch videos you unlock, or another FAQ about how to use the media centre.
andPOP.com 2009
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The game has an EA media centre, which allows you to customize your music experience (for which I find the included tracks in this title repetitive and uninspiring), watch videos you unlock, or another FAQ about how to use the media centre.
andPOP.com 2009
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The game has an EA media centre, which allows you to customize your music experience (for which I find the included tracks in this title repetitive and uninspiring), watch videos you unlock, or another FAQ about how to use the media centre.
andPOP.com 2009
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The game has an EA media centre, which allows you to customize your music experience (for which I find the included tracks in this title repetitive and uninspiring), watch videos you unlock, or another FAQ about how to use the media centre.
andPOP.com 2009
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The game has an EA media centre, which allows you to customize your music experience (for which I find the included tracks in this title repetitive and uninspiring), watch videos you unlock, or another FAQ about how to use the media centre.
andPOP.com 2009
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The game has an EA media centre, which allows you to customize your music experience (for which I find the included tracks in this title repetitive and uninspiring), watch videos you unlock, or another FAQ about how to use the media centre.
andPOP.com 2009
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The game has an EA media centre, which allows you to customize your music experience (for which I find the included tracks in this title repetitive and uninspiring), watch videos you unlock, or another FAQ about how to use the media centre.
andPOP.com 2009
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Worse still, the sense of sameness that pervades the look of the film – pasty-faced agents and snarling gangsters, dozens of murky rooms and grimy exteriors, too many of the same characters in repetitive dialogue – keeps it from building momentum or establishing a rhythm that would help the audience immerse themselves in the narrative or the time and place.
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There are numerous blunders of racial or gender sensitivity, of which the most boringly repetitive is a bizarre fixation with Hermann Göring.
Linkspam for 19-10-2009 nwhyte 2009
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