adjective
- full of repetition, especially unnecessary and tedious repetition: a repetitious account of their vacation trip.
adjective
- characterized by unnecessary repetition
“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.