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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    DVD Review: Public Enemies « Screaming Blue Reviews 2009

  • 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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