1 saying or doing the same thing many times, so that it becomes boring:
Machines can now perform many repetitive tasks in the home.
2 repeated many times:
a repetitive pattern of behaviour * Travel sickness is caused by the effect of repetitive movements.
repetitively adverb
repetitiveness noun [U]:
The repetitiveness of the work really got me down after a while.
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Is repetitive a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, repetitive is tagged as adjective.
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