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repetitious
| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | dull |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | boring, uninteresting |
| Synonyms: | abused, archaic, arid, big yawn, blah, colorless, common, commonplace, dead, dismal, dreary, driveling, dry, familiar, flat, hackneyed, heavy, ho hum, hoary, humdrum*, insipid, jejune, longwinded, monotonous, oft-repeated, ordinary, out-of-date, plain, pointless, prolix, prosaic, prosy, repetitious, repetitive, routine, run-of-the-mill, soporific, stale, stock, stupid, tame, tedious, tired, tiresome, trite, unimaginative, uninspiring, usual, usual thing, vapid, worn-out |
| Antonyms: | active, exciting, interesting, lively |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | humdrum |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | boring, uneventful |
| Synonyms: | arid, banausic, blah, bromidic, common, commonplace, dim, dime a dozen, drab, dreary, dull, everyday, garden-variety, insipid, lifeless, monotone, monotonous, mundane, ordinary, pedestrian, plodding, prosy, repetitious, routine, tedious, tiresome, toneless, treadmill, uninteresting, unvaried, vanilla, wearisome, white-bread |
| Antonyms: | busy, eventful, exciting, lively, unusual |
| 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: | perpetual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | continual, lasting |
| Synonyms: | abiding, ceaseless, constant, continued, continuous, endless, enduring, eternal, everlasting, going on, immortal, imperishable, incessant, infinite, interminable, intermittent, never-ceasing, never-ending, perdurable, perennial, permanent, persistent, recurrent, recurring, reoccurring, repeated, repeating, repetitious, returning, sempiternal, unceasing, unchanging, undying, unending, unfailing, uninterrupted, unremitting, without end |
| Antonyms: | brief, ephemeral, fleeting, momentary, temporary, transient |
| Main Entry: | stale |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overused, out-of-date |
| Synonyms: | antiquated, banal, bent, cliché, cliché-ridden, clichéd, common, commonplace, corny*, dead, drab, dull, dusty, effete, flat, fusty, hackneyed, insipid, like a dinosaur, mawkish, moth-eaten, out*, passé, past, platitudinous, repetitious, shopworn, stereotyped, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, unoriginal, well-worn, worn-out, yesterday's, zestless |
| Antonyms: | current, fresh, new, underused |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | verbose |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wordy, long-winded |
| Synonyms: | bombastic, circumlocutory, diffuse, flowery, full of air, fustian, gabby, garrulous, grandiloquent, involved, loquacious, magniloquent, palaverous, periphrastic, pleonastic, prolix, redundant, repeating, repetitious, repetitive, rhetorical, talkative, talky, tautological, tautologous, tedious, tortuous, windy, yacking |
| Antonyms: | concise, succinct |
| Main Entry: | repeating |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | recurrent |
| Synonyms: | ceaseless, continuous, copying, duplicating, echoing, imitating, perpetual, reduplicating, reiterative, repetitious, reproducing |
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