Repeatedly

Definition: Repeatedly

Repeatedly

Adverb

1. Several time; "it must be washed repeatedly".

Date "repeatedly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Frequency	Adverb: often, oft; ofttimes, oftentimes; frequently; repeatedly; unseldom, not unfrequently; in quick succession, in rapid succession; many a time and oft; daily, hourly; every day, every hour, every moment;
Repetition	Adverb: repeatedly, often, again, anew, over again, afresh, once more; ding-dong, ditto, encore, de novo, bis, da capo.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

Goodbye crazy lady, I enjoyed repeatedly throwing you to the ground. (Short Circuit; writing credit: Brent Maddock; S.S. Wilson)

It's a sad, depressing story about a pathetic coyote who spends every waking moment in the futile persuit of a sadistic roadrunner, who mocks him and laughs at him as he is repeatedly crushed and maimed. (UHF; writing credit: 'Weird Al' Yankovic; Jay Levey)

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	The net is now on board and the operation of collecting the fish has begun. The large basket in the upper left is dipped repeatedly into the water to bring the fish on to the boat.Credit: Fisheries.		The net is now on board and the operation of collecting the fish has begun. The large basket is dipped repeatedly into the water to bring the fish on to the boat.Credit: Fisheries.
	The net is now on board and the operation of collecting the fish has begun. The large basket is dipped repeatedly into the water to bring the fish on to the boat.Credit: Fisheries.		The net is now on board and the operation of collecting the fish has begun. The large basket is dipped repeatedly into the water to bring the fish on to the boat.Credit: Fisheries.
	A wooden bulkhead protects the end of an oil and gas pipeline on the Gulf of Mexico. The restoration was conducted to fortify this area as it filled repeatedly with water.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Play	Caption	Play	Caption
	Irritated horse neighing repeatedly.		Machine turning off then horn beeping repeatedly.
	Frog croaking repeatedly.		Cows mooing repeatedly.
	School bell ringing repeatedly.		Duck quacking repeatedly.
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Author	Quotation
William Hazlitt	Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
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Author	Date	Quotation
US Declaration of Independence	1776	He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. (reference)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Assessment must be done repeatedly for several years. (references)
		Nearly all the people who live in endemic areas are exposed to infection repeatedly. (references)
		Intoxication can last only a few minutes or several hours if inhalants are taken repeatedly. (references)
Business		This complaint was heard repeatedly in the research for this report. (references)
		Quality was repeatedly identified as the most important consideration in this market. (references)
		The contacts repeatedly emphasized that, compared to other industries, U.S. firms have largely ignored this market. (references)
Civil Liberties	Cuba	Dozens of reporters were detained repeatedly. (references)
	Cuba	Some journalists have been threatened repeatedly since the law took effect. (references)
	Kyrgyz Republic	The NAC's directive that Osh Television switch channels was postponed repeatedly. (references)
Economic History	Egypt	This happens repeatedly, at every level of decision making. (references)
	Peru	Coups have repeatedly interrupted civilian constitutional government. (references)
	Afghanistan	The UN Security Council repeatedly sanctioned the Taliban for these activities. (references)
Human Rights	Nepal	Maoist rebels clashed with police repeatedly during the year. (references)
	Dominican Republic	During the investigative phase, suspects are questioned repeatedly and urged to confess. (references)
	Cuba	Prison officials repeatedly failed to provide proper medical treatment to Diaz Hernandez. (references)
Minorities	Czech Republic	Roma also were subject to popular prejudice, as is confirmed repeatedly by public opinion polls. (references)
	Bulgaria	In the Pleven region, a local television station repeatedly broadcast an inflammatory statement purportedly representing the views of the local Bulgarian Orthodox bishop. (references)
	Togo	Unlike in the previous year, when north-south tensions repeatedly erupted into violence of a clearly interethnic character, there were no reports of such violence during the year. (references)
Political Economy	Tonga	A member of the police repeatedly beat a prisoner in front of other police officers. (references)
	Equatorial Guinea	The judicial system repeatedly failed to ensure due process and remained subject to executive pressures. (references)
	Poland	Leaders of Poland's major political parties have repeatedly expressed strong public support for foreign and specifically U.S. investment. (references)
Political Rights	Colombia	Paramilitaries repeatedly have threatened him since he took office in January. (references)
	Congo	However, in 2000 the Government repeatedly used its power to stifle any meaningful dialog. (references)
	Belarus	Lukashenka repeatedly criticized the organization as a mechanism for recruiting spies and for training revolutionaries. (references)
Travel	Slovak Rep	Slovak authorities have been repeatedly criticized for the length and non-transparency of this process. (references)
Women	Kuwait	The police occasionally arrested rapists who held their victims for a period of days, raping them repeatedly. (references)
	Jordan	The boy repeatedly struck his sister in the head with a club before covering her body in kerosene and setting it on fire. (references)
Worker Rights	China	Foreign officials have repeatedly been denied permission to visit Nenang Monastery. (references)
	France	Police and gendarmes struck repeatedly and successfully for increased salary and benefits. (references)
	Brazil	As a result, a number of estate owners have been cited repeatedly for employing slave labor. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Robert Novak	Mr. Chairman, I'd like to get your view, if you don't mind, on Prime Minister Sharon. The president, through a spokesman, has repeatedly called him a man of peace.
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
George Washington	1789-1797	Congress have repeatedly, and not without success, directed their attention to the encouragement of manufactures.
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	This remedy has been repeatedly resorted to, and recently by France herself toward Portugal, under circumstances less unquestionable.
Gerald Ford	1974-1977	The opportunities for a final settlement are great, and the price of failure is a return to the bloodshed and hatred that for too long have brought tragedy to all of the peoples of this area and repeatedly edged the world to the brink of war.
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	As for those suggestions that the answer is higher taxes, the American people have repeatedly rejected that shopworn advice.
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	I am open, as I have said repeatedly, to the best ideas of concerned members of both parties.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Repeatedly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 99.92% of the time. "Repeatedly" is used about 1,288 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adverb (general)	99.92%	1,287	6,139
Noun (proper)	0.08%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	1,288	N/A

Expressions using "repeatedly": knock repeatedly ♦ lick repeatedly ♦ repeatedly refuse ♦ touch repeatedly. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "repeatedly": repeatedly-promised.
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Language		Translations for "repeatedly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		vazhdimisht (again and again, ceaselessly, constantly, continually, continuously, incessantly, non-stop, unceasingly, uninterruptedly), në mënyrë të përsëritur. (various references)

Arabic		‏مرارا, ‏تكرارا (frequently, over and over), ‏عدة مرات (over and over). (various references)

Bulgarian		често (constantly, frequently, hourly, minutely, oft, often, oftentimes, regular), неведнъж (over and over again), нееднократно, много пъти (over and over, over and over again). (various references)

Chinese		一再 . (various references)

Czech		opakovanì, opìt (again, all over). (various references)

Danish		gentagne gange. (various references)

Dutch		meermaals. (various references)

Esperanto		ripetfoje, plurfoje. (various references)

Finnish		yhä uudestaan (over and over again), yhä uudelleen (again and again, over and over again), uudelleen (afresh, again, anew, once more, over and over again), toistuvasti, moneen kertaan (many times). (various references)

French		très souvent, plusieurs fois, � plusieurs reprises, � maintes reprises. (various references)

German		wiederholt (afresh, again, frequent, iterated, once more, re enacts, reiterates, repeated, repeats, repetitive). (various references)

Greek		επανειλημμένα. (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"ת�"פק (knock repeatedly). (various references)

Hungarian		többször (often, on divers occasions, several times), ismételten (again, anew, over, over and over, over and over again, time and again, time and time again, to reconsider). (various references)

Indonesian		mencopoti (take off), gencar (incessant, unbroken, unceasing), berulang (frequent), acapkali (frequently, often). (various references)

Italian		ripetutamente. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		� �りに (eagerly, frequently, incessantly), 呉れ呉れも (earnestly, sincerely). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		たびたび (frequently, often), しきりに (eagerly, frequently, incessantly), な�"べ�"も, くれぐれも (earnestly, sincerely), さいさ�"さいし, さいさ�" (again and again, profit), かさねて (once more), かえすがえす (to a tremendous extent), いっさい (absolutely, all, entirely, everything, once or twice, one year old, the whole, without exception), �"�"�"�"と (earnestly), じゅうじゅうにも. (various references)

Korean		반복� �으로 (Iteratively, repetitively). (various references)

Manx		reesht as reesht (repeated). (various references)

Pig Latin		epeatedlyray

Polish		wielokrotnie. (various references)

Portuguese		repetidamente (again and again, once for all). (various references)

Romanian		repetat (continually, frequent, iterative, persistent, persistently, repeat, twice), des (abundant, copious, dense, densely, frequent, frequently, often, regularly, repeated, rife, thick), adeseori (frequently, often), adesea (frequently, many a time, many times, minutely, oft, often, regularly), ades (frequently), în mai multe rânduri (on several occasions). (various references)

Russian		неоднократно (more than once, on repeated occasions, once and again, time and again), повторно (recurrently, recurringly). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		u više navrata. (various references)

Spanish		repetidamente (repeated times). (various references)

Swedish		upprepat. (various references)

Turkish		tekrar tekrar (again and again, always, over and over, scores of times, thrice, time after time, time and again), durmadan (away, continual, continually, continuously, forever, night and day, non-stop, on, on and on, on end, without cease), defalarca (again and again, always, fast, for the nth time, for the umpteenth time, heaps of times, numbers of times, over and over, scores of times, time after time, time and again, times without numbers, tons of times), aralıksız olarak (incessantly, on and on). (various references)

Ukranian		неодноразово (again), повторно (time after time). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	crebrius, crebro, identidem, re-, saepe, saepe, sepe, saepius sepius. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Misspellings
	"Repeatedly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: respeatedly. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "repeatedly" (pronounced rupē"tudlē)
6	-ē" t u d l ē	heatedly.
5	-t u d l ē	admittedly, assertedly, belatedly, contentedly, excitedly, pointedly, purportedly, reportedly, reputedly, undoubtedly, unexpectedly, unprecedentedly, wholeheartedly.
4	-u d l ē	acidly, advisedly, allegedly, assuredly, avidly, avowedly, candidly, decidedly, deservedly, determinedly, doggedly, evenhandedly, guardedly, markedly, placidly, rapidly, rigidly, ruggedly, solidly, splendidly, stupidly, supposedly, timidly, unabashedly, unashamedly, validly, vividly, wickedly, wretchedly.
3	-d l ē	absurdly, awkwardly, badly, baldly, blandly, blindly, boldly, broadly, coldly, cowardly, crudely, cuddly, dastardly, deadly, Diddley, downwardly, fondly, friendly, gladly, godly, goodly, grandly, haphazardly, hardly, hurriedly, idly, inwardly, kindly, loudly, madly, medley, mildly, niggardly, oddly, otherworldly, outwardly, profoundly, proudly, Ridley, roundly, rudely, sadly, secondly, shrewdly, soundly, straightforwardly, thirdly, unfriendly, ungodly, upwardly, weirdly, widely, wildly, worldly.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-l-p-r-t-y"
	-2 letters: departee, paltered, parleyed, pedately, peltered, pterylae, repealed, repeated, replated, replayed.
	-3 letters: adepter, adeptly, alerted, altered, delayer, deplete, layered, lyrated, pearled, peartly, pedlary, pedlery, petaled, petered, petrale, peytral, peytrel, pleader, pleated, pleater, predate, prelate, pteryla, related, relayed, replate, replead, replete, retaped, retyped, tapered, treadle.
	-4 letters: dartle, dealer, dearly, deeper, deeply, delate, delete, depart, derate.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-e-l-p-r-t-y"
	+1 letter: desperately.
	+3 letters: exasperatedly, openheartedly.
	+4 letters: premeditatedly, preponderately.
	+5 letters: hyperventilated.
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