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| Main Entry: |
reiterative
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | repetitive |
| Synonyms: | boring, ceaseless, constant, continual, dull, insistent, iterative, monotonous, repeated, repetitious, uninteresting, verbose |
| Main Entry: | habitual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | usual, established |
| Synonyms: | accepted, accustomed, addicted, addicting, automatic, chronic, common, confirmed, constant, continual, conventional, customary, cyclic, disciplined, familiar, fixed, frequent, hardened, ingrained, inveterate, iterated, iterative, mechanical, methodical, natural, normal, ordinary, perfunctory, permanent, perpetual, persistent, practiced, recurrent, regular, reiterative, repeated, repetitious, rooted, routine, seasoned, set, standard, steady, systematic, traditional, wonted |
| Notes: | habitual means made a norm or custom or habit or fixed practice; customary means in accordance with convention or custom; usual means commonly or normally encountered, experienced, or observed |
| Antonyms: | infrequent, inhabitual, intermittent, occasional, rare, seldom, uncommon, unestablished, unusual |
| Main Entry: | insistent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | demanding |
| Synonyms: | assertive, burning, clamant, clamorous, continuous, crying, dire, dogged, emphatic, exigent, forceful, imperative, imperious, importunate, incessant, obstinate, peremptory, perseverant, persevering, persistent, pressing, reiterative, resolute, resounding, unrelenting, urgent |
| Antonyms: | disinterested, indifferent, lenient, tolerant |
| Main Entry: | repetitious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wordy, tedious |
| Synonyms: | alliterative, boring, dull, echoic, iterant, iterative, long-winded, plangent, pleonastic, prolix, recapitulatory, redundant, reiterative, repeating, repetitive, resonant, tautological, verbose, windy |
| Antonyms: | concise, simple |
| Main Entry: | repeating |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | recurrent |
| Synonyms: | ceaseless, continuous, copying, duplicating, echoing, imitating, perpetual, reduplicating, reiterative, repetitious, reproducing |
| Main Entry: | tautological |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | repetitious |
| Synonyms: | pleonastic, redundant, reiterating, reiterative |
| Main Entry: | iterative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | repetitive |
| Synonyms: | boring, ceaseless, constant, continual, dull, insistent, monotonous, reiterative, repeated, repetitious, uninteresting, verbose |
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