"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.
权威例句
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。
2. This book is infuriatingly repetitious.
这本书不停地重复絮叨,真让人窝火。
3. a long and repetitious speech
冗长重复的讲话
4. Let us risk seeming repetitious explanation, in order to drive it home.