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词汇 repetitious
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Definition of repetitious in English:

repetitious

adjective rɛpɪˈtɪʃəsˌrɛpəˈtɪʃəs
  • many hours of repetitious labour
    another term for repetitive
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He admits to finding the Buddha's dialogues ‘long-winded and repetitious,’ with ‘little of the artistry so evident in Plato.’
    • Of the fifteen new poems, I think ‘La Florida’ and ‘Purple Finch’ are the best and perhaps indicate a direction away from what has become a repetitious lament of exile.
    • They're a bit of recognition for excelling at jobs that, Wasserstein admits, are often boring and repetitious.
    • They are intentionally, indeed overinsistently, scabrous; and they are conscientiously repetitious in their linear, timeless design.
    • As a result of his determination to include just about everyone and everything that was connected with the Great Fire, Tinniswood's narrative sometimes comes across as slightly disheveled and repetitious.
    • Sachs tells us that reading these impassioned letters eventually became repetitious and boring.
    • Tabular and repetitious in structure, an algorithm is essentially a finite blend of mathematical calculations and logical statements that process data according to preordained formats.
    • It is a repetitious and tedious work, a mixture of scholarship and scurrilous invective, but Milton himself was well satisfied with it.
    • But, when the humor is flat and repetitious, as is the case here, the absence of a credible storyline becomes a major drawback.
    • Most of these excerpts are as good as anything in the finished film (to condemn with faint praise), but Zamm's remarks get repetitious after a while.
    • Although somewhat repetitious in its early moments, the dance achieved great poignancy as it depicted the infatuation of two young strangers at a dance - and the girl's death from a stray bullet.
    • The tragedies that plague the talent make for grimmer reading, resulting in a story arc that's as banal and repetitious as most contemporary porn features.
    • There was a time not long ago when Telemann, like Vivaldi, was thought to be dull and repetitious.
    • Here, the music becomes anguished yet mechanical, frighteningly repetitious and full of noises that seem only half-human in origin.
    • Moreover, he had to worry about all manner of dull work: petitions were read, proclamations heard, and patents and all manner of wordy, repetitious and wearisome papers had to be attended to.
    • Lee also orchestrates some magnificent horizontal sweeps at the apron of the stage but as they become more repetitious, they are rendered bereft of the grandeur initially achieved.
    • By the late nineties, many critics had begun to find Iranian films cloying and repetitious, and The Silence doesn't exactly help that particular cause.
    • Its style can seem tedious and repetitious to a modern professional economist.
    • They are boring, repetitious, and self-serving.
    • But if that biography confined itself to her activities in the world, it would be appallingly repetitious and boring.
    Synonyms
    repetitive, monotonous, tedious, boring, uninteresting, humdrum, mundane, tiresome, wearisome, dreary, soul-destroying, mind-numbing

Derivatives

  • repetitiously

  • adverb
    • The story of business economics and philosophy needs to be told simply, understandably, repetitiously and without dilution or distortion - to broad masses of the people.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Thousands of workers were stationed along a conveyor-belt-driven assembly line, each repetitiously adding parts to Ford's Model T car.
      • The credit statements, along with her collection of images, including abandoned shopping malls and university loan transcripts, paint a plain yet repetitiously eerie picture of consumerism.
      • That is precisely what the mental health profession repetitiously tells us, considering that an enormous amount of tax subsidies has a great deal of influence on this issue.
      • Its editorial pages have expressed an over-the-top pre-emptive enthusiasm, arguing the case as repetitiously as the president and nearly as cockily as his chief advisor.
  • repetitiousness

  • noun
    • Pamela Berlin, who directed persuasively, can be faulted only for not having made the author trim some of his repetitiousness.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It sounds as though they were attempting to either mock the repetitiousness of pop music or push it through to some kind of minimalist trance, but they succeed at nothing so much as irritation.
      • Sadly, this was the point where I realised that Fuel have made the mistake of carrying on their signature riffs right through the album to the point of repetitiousness.
      • Its spacious interiors and colour scheme were admired, but many people found its repetitiousness boring.
      • Perhaps for feminists Tiefer's repetitiousness makes the lecture a little bit long.

Rhymes

adventitious, Aloysius, ambitious, auspicious, avaricious, capricious, conspicuous, delicious, expeditious, factitious, fictitious, flagitious, judicious, lubricious, malicious, Mauritius, meretricious, nutritious, officious, pernicious, propitious, seditious, siliceous, superstitious, suppositious, surreptitious, suspicious, vicious

Definition of repetitious in US English:

repetitious

adjectiveˌrɛpəˈtɪʃəsˌrepəˈtiSHəs
  • many hours of repetitious labor
    another term for repetitive
    Example sentencesExamples
    • They're a bit of recognition for excelling at jobs that, Wasserstein admits, are often boring and repetitious.
    • He admits to finding the Buddha's dialogues ‘long-winded and repetitious,’ with ‘little of the artistry so evident in Plato.’
    • It is a repetitious and tedious work, a mixture of scholarship and scurrilous invective, but Milton himself was well satisfied with it.
    • But, when the humor is flat and repetitious, as is the case here, the absence of a credible storyline becomes a major drawback.
    • Although somewhat repetitious in its early moments, the dance achieved great poignancy as it depicted the infatuation of two young strangers at a dance - and the girl's death from a stray bullet.
    • Moreover, he had to worry about all manner of dull work: petitions were read, proclamations heard, and patents and all manner of wordy, repetitious and wearisome papers had to be attended to.
    • Its style can seem tedious and repetitious to a modern professional economist.
    • Sachs tells us that reading these impassioned letters eventually became repetitious and boring.
    • They are intentionally, indeed overinsistently, scabrous; and they are conscientiously repetitious in their linear, timeless design.
    • They are boring, repetitious, and self-serving.
    • But if that biography confined itself to her activities in the world, it would be appallingly repetitious and boring.
    • As a result of his determination to include just about everyone and everything that was connected with the Great Fire, Tinniswood's narrative sometimes comes across as slightly disheveled and repetitious.
    • Most of these excerpts are as good as anything in the finished film (to condemn with faint praise), but Zamm's remarks get repetitious after a while.
    • Here, the music becomes anguished yet mechanical, frighteningly repetitious and full of noises that seem only half-human in origin.
    • Tabular and repetitious in structure, an algorithm is essentially a finite blend of mathematical calculations and logical statements that process data according to preordained formats.
    • The tragedies that plague the talent make for grimmer reading, resulting in a story arc that's as banal and repetitious as most contemporary porn features.
    • Lee also orchestrates some magnificent horizontal sweeps at the apron of the stage but as they become more repetitious, they are rendered bereft of the grandeur initially achieved.
    • There was a time not long ago when Telemann, like Vivaldi, was thought to be dull and repetitious.
    • Of the fifteen new poems, I think ‘La Florida’ and ‘Purple Finch’ are the best and perhaps indicate a direction away from what has become a repetitious lament of exile.
    • By the late nineties, many critics had begun to find Iranian films cloying and repetitious, and The Silence doesn't exactly help that particular cause.
    Synonyms
    repetitive, monotonous, tedious, boring, uninteresting, humdrum, mundane, tiresome, wearisome, dreary, soul-destroying, mind-numbing
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