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repetitious
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rep·e·ti·tious  (rp-tshs)
adj.
Filled with repetition, especially needless or tedious repetition.

repe·titious·ly adv.
repe·titious·ness n.

repetitious [ˌrɛpɪˈtɪʃəs]
adj
characterized by unnecessary repetition
repetitiously  adv
repetitiousness  n
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Adj.1.repetitious - characterized by repetition; "repetitive movement"

repetitious
adjective long-winded, wordy, verbose, prolix, redundant, tedious, windy, tautological, iterative, pleonastic The manifesto is repetitious and poorly drafted.
Translations
repetitious [ˌrɛpɪˈtɪʃəs] adj [speech] → plein(e) de redites
repetitious
adjsich wiederholend
repetitious [ˌrɛpɪˈtɪʃəs] adj (frm) (speech) → pieno/a di ripetizioni


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In that painting, he repetitiously paints the word believe over a variety of small, unrelated images, including an angel, a dog, a bird, a schematic of a brain, and a house, obscuring the clarity of the objects.
By contrast with his visually constricted and contentiously and repetitiously babbling parents, Isaac is shown in full-bodied repose and motion without ever uttering a word.
By now it had been long forgotten that Strutley derived from the word street and so the word street was added repetitiously.
 
 
 
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