repetitive Definition
re·peti·tive (ri pet′ə tiv)
adjective
of or characterized by repetition
- re-petition
- rephotograph
repetitive Related Forms
re·pet′i·tively adverb
repetitive Synonyms
repetitive Usage Examples
Preposition: after
while: However, the messages and indeed the DJ do get repetitive after a while.
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- get: However, the core gameplay can get a bit repetitive.
- find: However, he found the work repetitive and decided to take an MBA at the ESCP-EAP in Paris.
Modifies a noun
- stimulation: Motor neuron disease: decremental responses to repetitive nerve stimulation.
- injury: There are hundreds of repetitive strain injuries, too.
- gameplay: This makes for a lot of repetitive gameplay in the early stages of most missions.
- task: Any tedious or repetitive task causes people to change their mood.
- riff: As the song progresses the washed out repetitive organ riff is augmented by heavily delayed and sporadically panned lead guitar.
- firing: This in turn, may help prevent excessively rapid and repetitive firing of electrical signals.
Modifying Another Word
- annoyingly: I like the song in itself but the drum solo doesn't fit and the lead guitar part is annoyingly repetitive.
- tad: However, we can foresee it suffering the main problem of any game of its type; namely it getting a tad repetitive.
- overly: It's added touches like this that make the game varied and interesting to play without being overly repetitive.
- somewhat: At the risk of being somewhat repetitive we have tried to relate these where possible to the relevant departments in the prescribed template.
- occasionally: Speech usually ceases or is severely reduced, but occasionally repetitive vocalization may occur.
- rather: Once the novelty of powering up your team has worn off, the game boils down to a great deal of rather repetitive combat.
Used with adjective complement
- become: I also felt the demands of activists in ACT UP had become repetitive.
- seem: Like everything, the fair has its good and less than good years; it can also seem repetitive when you go every year.
- get: Healthy lunches in boxes The major problem with lunch boxes is that they get terribly repetitive.
- feel: However, the track design isn't the most exhilarating and sections often feel repetitive.
- sound: Without wishing to sound repetitive, Pietersen plays another glorious shot, which just about suits the mood of the day for England.
Browse dictionary entries near repetitive
- ‹ repetitious
- ‹ repetition
- ‹ repetend
- ‹ repertory theater
- ‹ repertory
- ‹ repertoire
- ‹ repercussion
- ‹ repeople
- ‹ repentant
- ‹ repentance
- repetitive strain (or stress) injury ›
- rephrase ›
- repine ›
- replace ›
- replaced ›
- replacement ›
- replacing ›
- Replay Attack ›
- repleader ›
- replenish ›

