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| Main Entry: |
reiterate
 [ree-it-uh-reyt] 
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | say or do again |
| Synonyms: | come again, ditto*, double-check, echo, go over again, ingeminate, iterate, play back, recap, recapitulate, recheck, rehash, renew, repeat, reprise, resay, restate, retell, rewarn, say again |
| Notes: | iterate means 'do or say something again' and reiterate is the result of the erroneous addition of a redundant prefix; iterate is used more for repeated actions like mathematical functions and reiterate tends to be used for things one says |
| Antonyms: | take back |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | echo |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | repeat, copy |
| Synonyms: | ape, ditto*, do like, go like, imitate, impersonate, make like, mimic, mirror, parallel, parrot, react, recall, redouble, reflect, reiterate, reproduce, resemble, resound, respond, reverberate, ring, rubber-stamp, second, vibrate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | emphasize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stress, give priority to |
| Synonyms: | accent, accentuate, affirm, articulate, assert, bear down, charge, dramatize, dwell on, enlarge, enunciate, headline, highlight, hit*, impress, indicate, insist on, italicize, labor the point, limelight, maintain, make a point, make clear, make emphatic, make much of, mark, pinpoint, play up, point out*, point up, press, pronounce, punctuate, put accent on, reiterate, repeat, rub in, spotlight*, underline, underscore, weight |
| Antonyms: | depreciate, forget, ignore, play down, understate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Example Sentences
- In it, he not only reiterated the group's position that it would not decommission its weapons ahead of a political settlement.
- The lesson has been reiterated for thousands of years.
- And it has reiterated its commitment to the war on terrorism.
| Main Entry: | frequent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | common, repeated |
| Synonyms: | a good many, commonplace, constant, continual, customary, everyday, expected, familiar, general, habitual, incessant, intermittent, iterated, manifold, many, monotonous, numberless, numerous, periodic, perpetual, persistent, pleonastic, profuse, recurrent, recurring, redundant, reiterated, reiterative, successive, thick, ubiquitous, usual, various |
| Antonyms: | inconstant, infrequent, irregular, occasional, rare, sporadic, uncommon, unrepeated, unusual |
| Main Entry: | go over |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | review |
| Synonyms: | analyze, examine, inspect, investigate, look at, peruse, practice, read, rehearse, reiterate, repeat, revise, riffle through, scan, skim, study, thumb through |
| Antonyms: | ignore, neglect |
| Main Entry: | insist |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | order and expect; claim |
| Synonyms: | assert, asseverate, aver, be firm, contend, demand, hold, importune, lay down the law, maintain, persist, press, reiterate, repeat, request, require, stand firm, swear, take a stand, urge, vow |
| Antonyms: | endure, forget, tolerate |
| Main Entry: | monotonous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | all the same, remaining the same |
| Synonyms: | banausic, blah*, boring, colorless, dreary, droning, dull, dull as dishwater, flat, flat as pancake, ho-hum, humdrum*, monotone, nothing, pedestrian, plodding, prosaic, puts one to sleep, recurrent, reiterated, repetitious, repetitive, samely, sing-song, soporific, tedious, tiresome, toneless, treadmill, unchanged, unchanging, uniform, uninflected, uninteresting, unrelieved, unvaried, unvarying, wearisome, wearying |
| Antonyms: | changing, ever-changing, exciting, lively, variable, versatile |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | parrot |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | repeat |
| Synonyms: | ape, chant, copy, copycat, echo, imitate, mime, mimic, quote, recite, reiterate |
| Notes: | a tame parrot is sometimes called a poll parrot, poll, or polly; a parakeet is a smaller slender parrot |
| Main Entry: | recapitulate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | go over something again |
| Synonyms: | epitomize, go over same ground, go the same round, outline, paraphrase, recap, recount, rehash, reiterate, repeat, rephrase, replay, restate, review, reword, run over, run through again, sum up, summarize |
| Antonyms: | take back |
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