| Main Entry: | repetitive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | repetitious |
Synonyms: |
boring, ceaseless, constant, continual, dull, insistent, monotonous, repeated, uninteresting, verbose |
| Main Entry: | continual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | constant, incessant |
Synonyms: |
aeonian, around-the-clock, ceaseless, connected, consecutive, continuous, dateless, endless, enduring, eternal, everlasting, frequent, interminable, oft-repeated, permanent, perpetual, persistent, persisting, recurrent, regular, relentless, repeated, repetitive, running, staying, steady, timeless, unbroken, unceasing, unchanging, unending, unfailing, unflagging, uninterrupted, unremitting, unvarying, unwaning |
| Notes: | continually means 'repeatedly, with breaks in between' and continuously means 'without interruption, in an unbroken stream'; continual typically refers to time while continuous can refer to space as well as time |
Antonyms: |
broken, ceasing, checked, halting, inconstant, infrequent, intermittent, interrupted, occasional, temporary |
| Main Entry: | cyclical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happening at regular intervals |
Synonyms: |
circular, patterned, periodic, recurrent, recurring, regular, repeated, repetitive, seasonal |
| 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flat, hackneyed, heavy, ho hum, hoary, humdrum*, insipid, jejune, longwinded, monotonous, oft-repeated, ordinary, out-of-date, plain, pointless, prolix, prosaic, prosy, repetitious, repetitive, routine, run-of-the-mill, soporific, stale, stock, stupid, tame, tedious, tired, tiresome,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 |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | recurrent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | repeating |
Synonyms: |
alternate, chain, continued, cyclical, frequent, habitual, intermittent, isochronal, isochronous, periodic, periodical, recurring, regular, reoccurring, repeated, repetitive, rolling |
Antonyms: |
halted, infrequent, permanent, prevented, stopped |
| Main Entry: | repetitious |
| 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: | 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: | isochronal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | recurrent |
Synonyms: |
alternate, chain, continued, cyclic, cyclical, frequent, habitual, intermittent, isochronous, like clockwork, periodic, periodical, recurring, regular, reoccurring, repeated, repetitive, rolling |
| Main Entry: | isochronous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | recurrent |
Synonyms: |
alternate, chain, continued, cyclic, cyclical, frequent, habitual, intermittent, isochronal, like clockwork, periodic, periodical, recurring, regular, reoccurring, repeated, repetitive, rolling |