recurringadjective
uk/rɪˈkɜː.rɪŋ/us/rɪˈkɝː.ɪŋ/happening many times, or happening again:
Francis suffered all his life from a recurring nightmare that he was trapped in a falling house.
The father-daughter relationship is a recurring theme in her novels.
For much of his life he suffered from recurring bouts of depression.
Synonym
recurrent
[ after noun ] specialized mathematics (of a number) repeating itself for ever following a decimal point:
10 divided by 3 is 3.3 recurring (= 3.3333...).
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Occurring and happening
- afoot
- assail
- asynchronous
- attendant
- be at work idiom
- become
- come
- come up
- concur
- event
- go ahead
- go down
- go hand in hand with sth idiom
- go together
- go with sth
- hand
- happen
- intervene
- materialize
- underway
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