Reiterative

3 definitions found

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

  Reiterative \Re*it"er*a*tive\ (r?-?t"?r-?-t?v), n.
     1. (Gram.) A word expressing repeated or reiterated action.
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     2. A word formed from another, or used to form another, by
        repetition; as, dillydally.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

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

  39 Moby Thesaurus words for "reiterative":
     abundant, battological, copious, diffuse, diffusive, duplicative,
     echoic, echoing, effusive, extravagant, exuberant, fecund,
     formless, gushing, gushy, imitative, iterative, overflowing,
     parrotlike, pleonastic, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive,
     prolific, recapitulative, redundant, reduplicative, reechoing,
     reiterant, repeating, repetitional, repetitionary, repetitious,
     repetitive, superabundant, tautological, tautologous, teeming