Repetitious
adjective
Saying or doing the same thing many times.
The speaker's speech was boring and repetitious.
Often appears as...
- become repetitious
- seem repetitious
adjective
Saying or doing the same thing many times.
The speaker's speech was boring and repetitious.
Often appears as...
- become repetitious
- seem repetitious
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Variety Preferred
Using 'repetitious' can hint at boredom or lack of creativity; it's often negative in context.
The book was dull and repetitious, with the same phrases in every chapter.
Pro Tip 2/3Spotting Redundancy
'Repetitious' is used to point out unnecessary repetition that doesn't add value or meaning.
The manual was repetitious, stating the same warnings on multiple pages.
Pro Tip 3/3Conveying Annoyance
Describing something as 'repetitious' often expresses annoyance or frustration with the repetition.
His repetitious apologies began to irritate her, as he kept making the same mistakes.
Pro Tip 1/3Variety Preferred
Using 'repetitious' can hint at boredom or lack of creativity; it's often negative in context.
The book was dull and repetitious, with the same phrases in every chapter.
Pro Tip 2/3Spotting Redundancy
'Repetitious' is used to point out unnecessary repetition that doesn't add value or meaning.
The manual was repetitious, stating the same warnings on multiple pages.
Pro Tip 3/3Conveying Annoyance
Describing something as 'repetitious' often expresses annoyance or frustration with the repetition.
His repetitious apologies began to irritate her, as he kept making the same mistakes.
Pro Tip 1/3Variety Preferred
Using 'repetitious' can hint at boredom or lack of creativity; it's often negative in context.
The book was dull and repetitious, with the same phrases in every chapter.
Pro Tip 2/3Spotting Redundancy
'Repetitious' is used to point out unnecessary repetition that doesn't add value or meaning.
The manual was repetitious, stating the same warnings on multiple pages.
Pro Tip 3/3Conveying Annoyance
Describing something as 'repetitious' often expresses annoyance or frustration with the repetition.
His repetitious apologies began to irritate her, as he kept making the same mistakes.
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Quote examples
Roger Allam
English Actor
But one of the satisfying things about performing a play is you know for that piece of time exactly what you're going to be doing. Your life has a physical pattern. There's something about the odd, repetitious nature of it that I find hugely relaxing. All the problems of life are taken care of for that bit of time.
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Patti Smith
American Musician
The reason we did 'Land of a Thousand Dances' and 'Gloria' on 'Horses' was because I liked repetitious, three-chord rock songs, but I didn't understand that I could write my own. I didn't realize that you could use those chords a million times.
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Ravi Shankar
Indian Musician
My brother had a house in Paris. To it came many Western classical musicians. These musicians all made the same point: 'Indian music,' they said, 'is beautiful when we hear it with the dancers. On its own, it is repetitious and monotonous.
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Phil Anselmo
American Musician
The lead guitar work is a bit repetitious, but when a song is under two minutes long, I don't have much room anyway. Thank goodness. But I've always contributed guitar parts to every band I've ever been in, so I'll always play the axe.
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Rudy Vallee
American Musician
Composers now just don't have the depth of inspiration for melody. Most of the lyrics of the pop songs you hear today are repetitious. They're almost nursery rhymes, as if written by children - which they are.
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Nadine Velazquez
American Actress
When you're rehearsing, you get really inspired in the beginning, but then it becomes repetitious and you lose the magic. How do you get the magic again? The magic happens when you're not pushing it.
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Rick Rubin
American Businessman
I really loved crunk. I loved the extreme nature of it, how repetitious it was, and how these basic, angry chants would just be repeated over and over again.
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Fiona Shaw
Irish Actress
I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
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Darrell Royal
American Coach
The only thing that would change would be the year, the names. It just got to be a repetitious life.
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Alfred North Whitehead
English Mathematician
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
Quote examples
Roger Allam
English Actor
But one of the satisfying things about performing a play is you know for that piece of time exactly what you're going to be doing. Your life has a physical pattern. There's something about the odd, repetitious nature of it that I find hugely relaxing. All the problems of life are taken care of for that bit of time.
Quote examples
Patti Smith
American Musician
The reason we did 'Land of a Thousand Dances' and 'Gloria' on 'Horses' was because I liked repetitious, three-chord rock songs, but I didn't understand that I could write my own. I didn't realize that you could use those chords a million times.
Quote examples
Ravi Shankar
Indian Musician
My brother had a house in Paris. To it came many Western classical musicians. These musicians all made the same point: 'Indian music,' they said, 'is beautiful when we hear it with the dancers. On its own, it is repetitious and monotonous.
Quote examples
Phil Anselmo
American Musician
The lead guitar work is a bit repetitious, but when a song is under two minutes long, I don't have much room anyway. Thank goodness. But I've always contributed guitar parts to every band I've ever been in, so I'll always play the axe.
Quote examples
Rudy Vallee
American Musician
Composers now just don't have the depth of inspiration for melody. Most of the lyrics of the pop songs you hear today are repetitious. They're almost nursery rhymes, as if written by children - which they are.
Quote examples
Nadine Velazquez
American Actress
When you're rehearsing, you get really inspired in the beginning, but then it becomes repetitious and you lose the magic. How do you get the magic again? The magic happens when you're not pushing it.
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Rick Rubin
American Businessman
I really loved crunk. I loved the extreme nature of it, how repetitious it was, and how these basic, angry chants would just be repeated over and over again.
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Fiona Shaw
Irish Actress
I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
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Darrell Royal
American Coach
The only thing that would change would be the year, the names. It just got to be a repetitious life.
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Alfred North Whitehead
English Mathematician
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
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