Repetitive

Definitions: Repetitive

Repetitive

Adjective

1. Persistently continual; "the bluejay's insistent cry".

2. Marked by tedious repetition.

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

Synonyms: Repetitive

Synonyms: insistent (adj), iterative (adj), reiterative (adj), repetitious (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Repetitive

English words defined with "repetitive": chant, chattering, compulsion ♦ glossolalia ♦ obsession ♦ reggae, repetitively. (references)

Specialty definitions using "repetitive": Alu family, Alu sequence, ASSEMBLER, PRODUCTION, ASSEMBLER, SMALL PRODUCTS I ♦ bench assembler ♦ clarinite, CONTINUOUS OPERATION ♦ De Quervain's disease, De Quervain's stenosing tenosynovitis, de Quervain's tenosynovitis, DeQuervain's disease, DNA Fingerprinting, DNA, Intergenic, DNA, Satellite, Domestic Violence ♦ Exchange Transfusion, Whole Blood ♦ flicker range, Fractures, Stress, fretting corrosion, friction oxydation ♦ hardware circular buffer ♦ Interspersed Repetitive Sequences ♦ key symbol ♦ locked-cycle test ♦ Minisatellite Repeats ♦ number of repetitive parts ♦ obsessional neurosis, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder ♦ POES, predictive control ♦ RECORD-CHANGER ASSEMBLER, Recurrent Costs, repetitive calculation, repetitive elements, repetitive flight plan, repetitive grid, Repetitive Sequences, Amino Acid, Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid, repetitive strain disorder, repetitive strain injury, repetitive timing, repetitive typing, repetitive work ♦ short interspersed nuclear element, submarine locator acoustic beacon ♦ TIROS-N, Transposase, Trinucleotide Repeat Expansion ♦ variable number of tandem repeats locus, VNTR locus, voltage fluctuation ♦ wave table. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Repetitive

Domain	Title
Books	Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Repetitive Stress Injuries: The Comprehensive Guide to Prevention, Treatment and Recovery (reference) Risk Assessment and Management of Repetitive Movements and Exertions of Upper Limbs: Job Analysis, Ocra Risk Indices, Prevention Strategies and desig (reference) The Repetitive Strain Injury Handbook: An 8-Step Revovery and Prevention (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Solving Care Problems in HIV: Managing Repetitive Questioning (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	No Repetitive Beats [IMPORT] (reference) Repetitive Movements (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Sounds Captioned with "Repetitive".

Play	Caption	Play	Caption
	Typical 1950's digital spaceship sounds within a repetitive bass line.		Minor key excerpt with repetitive piano, high bells, and horn.
	Heavy drums with repetitive digital melody and sustained synthesized string chords.		Gamelan orchestra playing a repetitive melodic pattern.
	Spacy sounds with random percussion hits and a repetitive melody.		A repetitive Jamaican- or Caribbean-influenced excerpt.
	A repetitive metallic melody with ray gun style tones in background.		Arpeggiated keyboard and repetitive conga style with synthesized bass and strings.
	A hi-hat being played in a repetitive manner.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Repetitive

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		They occur in a single or isolated fashion and are often repetitive. (references)
		Tardive dyskinesia is characterized by repetitive, involuntary, purposeless movements. (references)
		Training to use these devices requires structured, sequenced, and repetitive practice. (references)
Economic History	Nicaragua	Investors report that the quality of the work is quite good for repetitive, simple tasks, but considerable additional training is necessary for employees to perform more complicated tasks. (references)
Trade	Taiwan	This system of repetitive testing is costly and unnecessarily burdensome. (references)
	India	Policies may be obtained for single or repetitive export sales and for leases. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Repetitive

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	But you do have a responsibility to assess the impact of your work and to understand the damage that comes from the incessant, repetitive, mindless violence and irresponsible conduct that permeates our media all the time.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Repetitive

"Repetitive" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.34% of the time. "Repetitive" is used about 455 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
Adjective (general or positive)	99.34%	452	12,885
Noun (proper)	0.66%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	455	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Repetitive

Expressions using "repetitive": Interspersed Repetitive Sequences ♦ number of repetitive parts ♦ repetitive calculation ♦ repetitive elements ♦ repetitive flight plan ♦ repetitive grid ♦ repetitive strain disorder ♦ repetitive strain injury ♦ repetitive timing ♦ repetitive typing ♦ repetitive work. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "repetitive": non-repetitive.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Repetitive

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
repetitive strain injury	95
repetitive stress injury	51
repetitive	22
repetitive motion injury	14
repetitive manufacturing	10
repetitive motion	9
repetitive strain	9
repetitive injury	8
repetitive strain syndrome	7
carpal injury repetitive stress syndrome tunnel	6
repetitive stress	5
repetitive stress disorder	5
repetitive stress syndrome	4
repetitive task	4
repetitive motion disorder	3
ergonomic injury motion mouse repetitive	3
repetitive motion syndrome	3
repetitive strain injury rsi	3
behavior repetitive	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Repetitive

Language		Translations for "repetitive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		стандартен (accredited, conventional, standard, stock), сериен (serial), повтарящ се (intercurrent, iterant, iterative, recurrent, reduplicative, reiterative). (various references)

Chinese		连连. (various references)

Czech		opakující se (iterant, recurring). (various references)

Danish		repetitiv. (various references)

Dutch		repetitief. (various references)

Farsi		تکراری (Repetitious), بازانجامی . (various references)

Finnish		REP-sekvenssi (REP sequence, repetitive extragenic palindromic sequence), toistuvat tehtävät (repetitive tasks), toistuvat osat (boilerplate, master items, repetitive elements), toistuva signaalikuvio (repetitive signal pattern), toistuva näppäily (repetitive typing), toistuva laskenta (repetitive calculation), toistotyö (repetitive work), toistolaskenta (repetitive calculation), sivupohjien osat (boilerplate, master items, repetitive elements), kestoväsytysrasitus (repetitive stressing). (various references)

French		répétitif. (various references)

German		sich periodisch wiederholend, iterativ (iterative). (various references)

Greek		μονότονος (prosaic), επαναλαμβανόμενος (repeated, replicated). (various references)

Hungarian		ismétlődő (frequent, persistent, recurrent, recurring). (various references)

Italian		ripetitivo. (various references)

Korean		반복 (iteration, iterative, repeat, repeating, repetition). (various references)

Pig Latin		epetitiveray

Portuguese		repetitivo (repetitious). (various references)

Romanian		plictisitor (boring, boringly, dead, dreadful, dry, dull, dully, flat, heavy, irksome, jejune, languorous, long winded, long-spun, monotonous, monotonously, pedestrian, pesky, pestersome, pestiferous, repetitious, sententious, slow, tedious, tediously, tiresome, trying, weary). (various references)

Russian		без конца повторяющийся (repetitious), повторный (recurrent, relapsing, repeat). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ponovan (iterant, reduplicative, repeated), koji se ponavlja. (various references)

Spanish		repetitivo (recursive). (various references)

Swedish		återkommande (periodic, recurrent, recurring). (various references)

Turkish		tekrarlayan (iterative, recurrent, recurring, repetitious), tekrarlayıp duran (repetitious), tekrarlı (recurrent), gereksiz tekrarlar içeren (repetitious). (various references)

Vietnamese		lặp lại (iterant). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Repetitive

Derivations
	Words beginning with "repetitive": repetitively, repetitiveness, repetitivenesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Repetitive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: repetative, repetetive, repettitive, Reprentatives, repretitive, reptitive. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Repetitive"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "repetitive" (pronounced rupe"tutiv)
7	-p e" t u t i v	anticompetitive, competitive, noncompetitive, uncompetitive.
6	-e" t u t i v	rep.
5	-t u t i v	argumentative, consultative, exploitative, preventative, putative, representative, tentative, unrepresentative.
4	-u t i v	accusative, acquisitive, additive, affirmative, alliterative, alternative, causative, cognitive, commemorative, communicative, comparative, consecutive, conservative, contemplative, cumulative, curative, decorative, definitive, degenerative, demonstrative, derivative, diminutive, dispositive, duplicative, evocative, executive, expletive, Federative, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, generative, hypersensitive, illustrative, imaginative, imperative, indicative, infinitive, informative, initiative, inoperative, inquisitive, insensitive, interpretive, intuitive, laxative, lucrative, narrative, negative, neoconservative, noncumulative, nonexecutive, normative, nutritive, operative, palliative, participative, pejorative, positive, prerogative, preservative, primitive, prohibitive, provocative, punitive, recuperative, relative, remunerative, restorative, secretive, sedative, sensitive, speculative, superlative, talkative, ultraconservative, uncooperative, unimaginative, uninformative, vituperative.
3	-t i v	abortive, accommodative, accumulative, active, adaptive, addictive, adjective, administrative, adoptive, affective, appointive, appreciative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, attractive, authoritative, automotive, captive, collaborative, collective, combative, conductive, congestive, connective, constructive, contraceptive, cooperative, corrective, corruptive, counterproductive, creative, deceptive, defective, deliberative, descriptive, destructive, detective, digestive, dilutive, directive, disincentive, disparages, disruptive, dissipative, distinctive, distributive, effective, elective, elucidative, eruptive, exhaustive, exploitive, facultative, festive, furtive, hyperactive, imitative, inactive, inattentive, incentive, ineffective, infective, injunctive, innovative, instinctive, instructive, interactive, introspective, invective, inventive, investigative, irrespective, iterative, legislative, locomotive, manipulative, meditative, motive, native, nonautomotive, nonnative, nonproductive, objective, obstructive, octave, overactive, perceptive, perspective, photoconductive, plaintive, predictive, preemptive, presumptive, preventive, proactive, probative, productive, prognosticative, projective, prospective, protective, qualitative, quantitative, radioactive, reactive, receptive, reconstructive, redemptive, redistributive, reflective, refractive, regulative, rehabilitative, reproductive, respective, restive, restrictive, retroactive, retrospective, seductive, selective, stimulative, subjective, substantive, suggestive, superconductive, supportive, unattractive, unproductive, unreceptive, vegetative, vindictive.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Repetitive

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-e-i-i-p-r-t-t-v"
	-3 letters: pettier.
	-4 letters: peerie, petite, petter, pitier, privet, teeter, terete, trevet, trivet, verite.
	-5 letters: eerie, evert, evite, peeve, peter, petit, petti, reeve, reive, retie, revet, rivet, tepee, titer, titre, tripe, trite, viper.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-e-i-i-p-r-t-t-v"
	+2 letters: interpretive, repetitively.
	+3 letters: interoceptive, premeditative, receptivities.
	+4 letters: interoperative, interpretative, interpretively, perceptivities, perfectivities, repetitiveness.
	+5 letters: electropositive, interoperatives.
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