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/ɹˌɛpətˈɪʃəs/
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[ US /ˌɹɛpəˈtɪʃəs/ ]
[ US /ˌɹɛpəˈtɪʃəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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characterized by repetition
repetitive movement
How To Use repetitious In A Sentence
- This is charecteristic behavior:::As time wears on we lose the god's help and sucess becomes increasingly more difficult::: 1. Prior to 60s movies sucked INTENTIONALLY 2. Popular music scene "repetitious", replaced with dynamicism of the 70s. DesignerBlog
- The book is overlong, repetitious, and written in a kind of perfervid prose that quickly becomes tiring. The One and Only
- Just when it seems he is falling into a repetitious, stylistic pit, he reinvents the presentation.
- Here, the music becomes anguished yet mechanical, frighteningly repetitious and full of noises that seem only half-human in origin.
- He had become a repetitious provincial topographer.
- There was a time not long ago when Telemann, like Vivaldi, was thought to be dull and repetitious.
- But it was just silly to have such similar situations — of course some worked in sawmills, and some were part-time farmers and mill workers, and I've forgotten what the third was (there were three main industries) — and it would have looked just too botchy, you know, too sparse each one, too sparse or repetitious. Oral History Interview with Harriet Herring, February 5, 1976. Interview G-0027. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
- A simple, maddeningly repetitious vibration, it pulsed out from the crystal, and hypnotized all who came within its spell.
- So that kind of meshed together -- and then I started listening to more progressive kraut music, y'know, repetitious stuff, and African music and really finding major similarities in repetition in music from different parts of the world. Vice Magazine
- Each of our lives is a finite series of errors which tend to become rigid and repetitious and necessary. THE DICE MAN