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I really loved crunk. I loved the extreme nature of it, how repetitious it was, and how these basic, angry chants would just be repeated over and over again.
Rick Rubin

Meaning of "repetitious" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF REPETITIOUS

repetitious  [ˌrɛpɪˈtɪʃəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF REPETITIOUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Repetitious is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES REPETITIOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of repetitious in the English dictionary

The definition of repetitious in the dictionary is characterized by unnecessary repetition.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH REPETITIOUS


ablatitious
ˌæbləˈtɪʃəs
addititious
ˌædɪˈtɪʃəs
adscititious
ˌædsɪˈtɪʃəs
adventitious
ˌædvɛnˈtɪʃəs
ascititious
ˌæsɪˈtɪʃəs
cementitious
ˌsɪmɛnˈtɪʃəs
excrementitious
ˌekskrɪmenˈtɪʃəs
factitious
fækˈtɪʃəs
fermentitious
ˌfɜːmɛnˈtɪʃəs
fictitious
fɪkˈtɪʃəs
obreptitious
ˌɒbrɛpˈtɪʃəs
profectitious
prəfekˈtɪʃəs
recrementitious
ˌrɛkrɪmənˈtɪʃəs
stalactitious
ˌstæləkˈtɪʃəs
subreptitious
ˌsʌbrepˈtɪʃəs
supposititious
səˌpɒzɪˈtɪʃəs
surreptitious
ˌsʌrəpˈtɪʃəs
tralaticious
ˌtræləˈtɪʃəs
tralatitious
ˌtræləˈtɪʃəs
triticeous
trɪˈtɪʃəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE REPETITIOUS

reperk
repertoire
repertorial
repertories
repertory
repertory company
repertory society
reperusal
reperuse
repetend
repetition
repetitional
repetitionary
repetitiously
repetitiousness
repetitive
repetitive strain injury
repetitive stress injury
repetitively
repetitiveness

WORDS THAT END LIKE REPETITIOUS

ambitious
captious
cautious
conscientious
contentious
delicious
expeditious
facetious
flirtatious
infectious
nutritious
ostentatious
pretentious
rambunctious
scrumptious
superstitious
tendentious
tortious
unambitious
unpretentious
vexatious

Synonyms and antonyms of repetitious in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «REPETITIOUS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «repetitious» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of repetitious

Translation of «repetitious» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF REPETITIOUS

Find out the translation of repetitious to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of repetitious from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «repetitious» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

repetitivo
570 millions of speakers

English

repetitious
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दुहराव
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التكرار
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

повторы
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

repetitivo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পুনরাবৃত্তিকারী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

répétitif
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Berulang-ulang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Wiederholungen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

繰り返し
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

되풀이
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Repetitious
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

lập lại
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கூறியது கூறல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पुनरावृत्ती
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tekrarlayan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ripetitivo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

powtarzające
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

повтори
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

plictisitor
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

επαναλήψεις
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

herhalend
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

upprepningar
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

repeterende
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of repetitious

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «REPETITIOUS»

The term «repetitious» is regularly used and occupies the 98.900 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «REPETITIOUS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «repetitious» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «repetitious» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about repetitious

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3 QUOTES WITH «REPETITIOUS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word repetitious.
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Marvin Hamlisch
Let's say music is needed for only 43 seconds of film. You have to score it so it is an entity, so it won't bother anyone when it ends so quickly. Or if a song runs 2 minutes and 45 seconds, but the titles run a minute longer, you have to arrange that song so it doesn't get repetitious.
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Rick Rubin
I really loved crunk. I loved the extreme nature of it, how repetitious it was, and how these basic, angry chants would just be repeated over and over again.
3
Ravi Shankar
My brother had a house in Paris. To it came many Western classical musicians. These musicians all made the same point: 'Indian music,' they said, 'is beautiful when we hear it with the dancers. On its own, it is repetitious and monotonous.'

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «REPETITIOUS»

Discover the use of repetitious in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to repetitious and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Introduction to Psychology: Gateways to Mind and Behavior
Repetitious stimuli, repetitious stimuli, repetitious stimuli, repetitious stimuli, repetitious stimuli, repetitious stimuli are also attention getting. A dripping faucet at night makes little noise by normal standards, but because of repetition, it may ...
Dennis Coon, John Mitterer, 2008
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Helping Children with Autism Learn : Treatment Approaches ...
Other Repetitious Behavior and Obsessive Compulsive Behavior. Children with autism who demonstrate strong perseverative qualities usually not only have stereotyped motor movements, but also tend to use repetitious speech if they are  ...
Autism Clinic University of California Bryna Siegel Professor of Psychiatry and Director, San Francisco, 2003
3
The Triune Brain in Evolution: Role in Paleocerebral Functions
Lady Macbeth 's compulsive hand washing would be an example of such a repetitious performance. Unless one were familiar with the play, her repetitious hand washing by itself would have little meaning. Reenactment behavior, on the  ...
P.D. MacLean, 1990
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ADVANCES IN CANCER RESEARCH
It became apparent that, besides DNA which was not repeated in the genome ( unique or nonrepetitious DNA), there was a large amount of DNA which was highly repetitious in that it annealed very much more rapidly. The amount of this ...
George Klein, 1972
5
Take Command of Your Writing
Jill Meryl Levy. Careless repetition will weaken your writing. Avoid using different words that mean the same thing. Her fractured clavicle was broken in two places. (repetitious) Her clavicle was broken in two places. (revised) ...
Jill Meryl Levy, 1998
6
Agitation: A Description of Disruptive Behaviors in ...
Table 5-17 Logistic Regression of Hoarding Things, Descriptive Variables, and Religiosity Repetitious mannerisms The regression equation that included repetitious mannerisms as the criterion variable and the four control variables was ...
Joseph Larry Morris, 2007
7
Economic Reform and Development in China
This double waste or abuse of resources is a cost or a menace that repetitious construction poses for the economy. When censuring repetitious production, people tend to lump rural enterprises in with it, as if there were an indissoluble bond ...
Yining Li, 2012
8
The Cell Nucleus
Genes coding for the different transfer RNA's (repeated 10—100 times each) and genes coding for ribosomal RNA (repeated several hundred times) fall into the category of intermediate repetitious DNA; so do the genes that specify the ...
Harris Busch, 2012
9
Lewin's Essential Genes
Each of the three repetitious regions comprises a variable number of repeats of a rather short sequence. One type of repetitious region has repeats of a 97 bp FIGURE 7.9 Transcription of rDNA clusters generates a series of matrices, each ...
Jocelyn E. Krebs, Benjamin Lewin, Elliott S. Goldstein, 2013
10
Lewin's Genes XI
This implies that each nontranscribed spacer is internally repetitious, so that the variation in length results from changes in the number of repeats of some subunit. The general nature of the nontranscribed spacer is illustrated by the example of ...
‎2014

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «REPETITIOUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term repetitious is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Implied Reference Dates and repetitious payment claims
The existence of a valid and available 'reference date' is a fundamental pre-condition to a claimant's entitlement to make a progress claim under the Building ... «Lexology, Jul 15»
2
Scientific evidence of a link between anxiety and repetitious behavior
The first scientific evidence of a link between anxiety and repetitious behavior has been demonstrated by researchers at the University of Connecticut and ... «Medical Xpress, Jun 15»
3
Alex Trebek says Parliament's Question Period is 'a bit repetitious'
“The questions I see on the members' sheets, on their desks, all appear to have come from the same printer, the same font size, and it was a bit repetitious at ... «The Globe and Mail, May 15»
4
Repetitious Patterns May Be Secret to Chart-Topping Music
Repetitious Patterns May Be Secret to Chart-Topping Music. More. ABC News' Nick Watt reports the latest on how new research may give insight into some of ... «ABC News, Apr 15»
5
“Stop the homily abuse”
Yes abuse of the kindness of the people who are forced to listen to long, winding, repetitious, boring, unorganized, unprepared, mumbled homilies. In jest but ... «Patheos, Apr 15»
6
Pop music really is facile, repetitious and samey
From time immemorial, parents have griped about their children's musical tastes, dismissing the pop songs of the day as facile, repetitious and samey. Now their ... «Irish Times, Feb 15»
7
Slender: The Arrival Review - Repetitious Scare Tactics (PS3)
There's a tall man standing right outside my window; a tall, slender, faceless man — yet he is still watching. The Slender Man, or Slenderman as he may be ... «PlayStation LifeStyle, Sep 14»
8
Dekalb Schools vow to reduce immigrant lines
12 CONNECTTWEETLINKEDINCOMMENTEMAILMORE. DEKALB COUNTY, GA-- It was getting repetitious, and the parents in it were losing their patience. «WXIA-TV, Aug 14»
9
Cornish's chamber music proves more repetitious than rewarding
Film music has had an on-again, off-again relationship with the Western classical tradition since synchronized sound came to the movies in 1927. The field was ... «New York Classical Review, Apr 14»
10
Pentagon Finds The Repetitious Benghazi Hearings Have Cost …
Relentless investigations into the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya that have been tirelessly cheered on by right-wing media have reportedly cost taxpayers and ... «Media Matters for America, Mar 14»

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