- 1saying or doing the same thing many times, so that it becomes boring synonym monotonous a repetitive task.
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- 2repeated many times a repetitive pattern of behavior Travel sickness is caused by the effect of repetitive movements. repeat verb nounrepeatable adjective (≠unrepeatable)repeated adjectiverepeatedly adverbrepetition nounrepetitive adjectiverepetitious adjective
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noun [uncountable] The repetitiveness of the work really got me down after a while.See repetitive in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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