repetitive

See also: répétitive

English

Etymology

From Latin repetitus, with the suffix -ive.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpɛtɪtɪv/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

repetitive (comparative more repetitive, superlative most repetitive)

1. Happening many times in a similar way; containing repetition; repeating.

Synonyms

• recurrent, repetitious; see also Thesaurus:repetitive

Derived terms

• body-focused repetitive behavior disorder
• nonrepetitive
• repetitive strain injury (RSI)
• repetitively

Related terms

• repeat
• repeated
• repetition

Translations

happening many times in a similar way

• Bulgarian: повтарящ се (povtarjašt se), сериен (serien)
• Catalan: repetitiu
• Finnish: toistava (fi), toistuva (fi), itseään toistava
• French: répétitif (fr)
• Galician: repetitivo
• German: repetitiv (de)
• Greek: επαναληπτικός (el) (epanaliptikós)
• Hungarian: ismétlődő (hu), repetitív
• Italian: ripetitivo (it)
• Persian: تکراری (fa) (tekrâri)
• Portuguese: repetitivo (pt)
• Spanish: repetitivo (es), reiterativo (es), recurrente (es)
• Thai: ซ้ำซาก (th) (sám-sâak)

German

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Adjective

repetitive

1. inflection of repetitiv:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular