"employing repetition," often with suggestions of tiresomeness, 1670s, from Latin repetit-, past participle stem of repetere "do or say again" (see repeat (v.)) + -ous. Related: Repetitiously; repetitiousness.
双语例句
1. The manifesto is long-winded, repetitious and often ambiguous or poorly drafted.
这份声明冗长繁复，多处存在歧义或行文拙劣。
来自柯林斯例句
2. This book is infuriatingly repetitious.
这本书不停地重复絮叨，真让人窝火。
来自柯林斯例句
3. a long and repetitious speech
冗长重复的讲话
来自《权威词典》
4. Let us risk seeming repetitious explanation, in order to drive it home.
