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单词 repetitive
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Definition of repetitive in English:

repetitive

adjective rɪˈpɛtɪtɪvrəˈpɛdədɪv
  • Containing or characterized by repetition, especially when unnecessary or tiresome.

    a repetitive task
    Example sentencesExamples
    • They were dreary, low-paid and repetitive and gave rise to strikes for a good reason.
    • Its bureaucratic structures are fine for dealing with repetitive tasks but it cannot face new challenges.
    • They have also removed some repetitive passages as well as certain entire sections in Books II and III.
    • No two spaces have the same dimensions and nothing is repetitive, except perhaps the door openings.
    • For him, rhythms are incisive and repetitive - out of Stravinsky, but also connected to pop and jazz.
    • To say that the medium is inherently boring, repetitive, or juvenile is some straight up ignorance.
    • After the first half, it seems to run out of material and becomes repetitive.
    • Employees worked long hours, performing repetitive and physically demanding tasks.
    • They go to work early in the morning, sit at work benches or in front of machines and perform the same repetitive tasks all day.
    • The attritional, repetitive routine of the strike is draining just to read about.
    • The same amateur eye finds the general configuration of passenger aircraft highly repetitive.
    • It's just repetitive or uninteresting in terms of what already appears in the film.
    • This is a bit repetitive considering this scene is repeated later in another bonus feature.
    • It's impressive, but ultimately like the previous album, one dimensional, repetitive and monotonous.
    • The gameplay can also be, I'm afraid to say, boring and repetitive.
    • Jotted down, her words are broken, repetitive, a string of conventional pieties.
    • In the circumstances, the repetitive reading of the Koran day after day was a curious experience.
    • The woman is condemned to a repetitive round of complaints; the husband has chosen to insulate himself in silence.
    • It is the repetitive, untreated Chlamydial infections that can cause women to be sterile.
    • His coworkers seem to find his endless prattling about his dwindling sales repetitive and boring.
    Synonyms
    monotonous, tedious, boring, uninteresting, humdrum, mundane, tiresome, wearisome, dreary, soul-destroying, mind-numbing
    unvaried, unchanging, unvarying, undiversified, lacking variety, recurrent, recurring, repeated, repetitious, routine, mechanical, automatic, clockwork
    British informal samey

Derivatives

  • repetitively

  • adverbrɪˈpɛtɪtɪvlirəˈpɛdədɪvli
    • Each argument is put lucidly though sometimes repetitively.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Katrina slammed her fists repetitively against the wooden lid.
      • It looks as though he's strumming without a pick, and part of the pleasure of watching him slam his hand repetitively against the strings is wondering how it's possible that he hasn't cut his whole forearm to shreds.
      • The house had echoed with noise, with children crying, with people walking in the corridors outside, with murmurs and tremors, with the creak of the bunk beds, and the neon lights had been turned off and on repetitively.
      • A monitor beside a bed next to hers was beeping repetitively.
  • repetitiveness

  • nounrɪˈpɛtɪtɪvnəs
    • Eventually, the film implodes under the burden of its repetitiveness, so that by the time we reach the end we feel like we've seen half the planet's population in the altogether.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • There is no formal convention in any genre of literature that would make it either possible or desirable to portray it in all its constancy and repetitiveness.
      • These potted summaries lead to a certain repetitiveness to the book that could probably have been condensed in the introduction and omitted from individual chapters.
      • Cohen recently emerged from a five-year apprenticeship at Mt. Baldy Zen Center in Southern California, where the repetitiveness of daily menial tasks taught him humility and focused his mind.
      • On one level, these floral landscapes work as successful proponents of the decorative style with their flatness, lyrical repetitiveness and use of ornamental devices.
 
 

Definition of repetitive in US English:

repetitive

adjectiverəˈpɛdədɪvrəˈpedədiv
  • Containing or characterized by repetition, especially when unnecessary or tiresome.

    a repetitive task
    Example sentencesExamples
    • They go to work early in the morning, sit at work benches or in front of machines and perform the same repetitive tasks all day.
    • It is the repetitive, untreated Chlamydial infections that can cause women to be sterile.
    • His coworkers seem to find his endless prattling about his dwindling sales repetitive and boring.
    • The woman is condemned to a repetitive round of complaints; the husband has chosen to insulate himself in silence.
    • No two spaces have the same dimensions and nothing is repetitive, except perhaps the door openings.
    • Employees worked long hours, performing repetitive and physically demanding tasks.
    • The attritional, repetitive routine of the strike is draining just to read about.
    • The same amateur eye finds the general configuration of passenger aircraft highly repetitive.
    • After the first half, it seems to run out of material and becomes repetitive.
    • They were dreary, low-paid and repetitive and gave rise to strikes for a good reason.
    • The gameplay can also be, I'm afraid to say, boring and repetitive.
    • For him, rhythms are incisive and repetitive - out of Stravinsky, but also connected to pop and jazz.
    • Its bureaucratic structures are fine for dealing with repetitive tasks but it cannot face new challenges.
    • It's impressive, but ultimately like the previous album, one dimensional, repetitive and monotonous.
    • Jotted down, her words are broken, repetitive, a string of conventional pieties.
    • This is a bit repetitive considering this scene is repeated later in another bonus feature.
    • It's just repetitive or uninteresting in terms of what already appears in the film.
    • They have also removed some repetitive passages as well as certain entire sections in Books II and III.
    • To say that the medium is inherently boring, repetitive, or juvenile is some straight up ignorance.
    • In the circumstances, the repetitive reading of the Koran day after day was a curious experience.
    Synonyms
    monotonous, tedious, boring, uninteresting, humdrum, mundane, tiresome, wearisome, dreary, soul-destroying, mind-numbing
 
 
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