|repə|tishəs adjective
Etymology: from repetition, after such pairs as English ambition : ambitious
1. : marked by repetition : containing frequent repetitions : tediously repeating
the tiresome repetitious analyses … which sometimes make him so exasperating to read — Edmund Wilson
2. : repeating the same process or action again and again
the industrial revolution has freed man's hands from much dull and repetitious work — Bryan Morgan
• repetitiously adverb
• repetitiousness noun -es