Iterative

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Iterative \It"er*a*tive\, a. [L. iterativus: cf. F.
     it['e]ratif.]
     Repeating. --Cotgrave. -- {It"er*a*tive*ly}, adv.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  iterative
       adj : marked by tedious repetition [syn: {reiterative}, {repetitious},
              {repetitive}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  19 Moby Thesaurus words for "iterative":
     battological, duplicative, echoic, echoing, imitative, parrotlike,
     recapitulative, redundant, reduplicative, reechoing, reiterant,
     reiterative, repeating, repetitional, repetitionary, repetitious,
     repetitive, tautological, tautologous