recurrent

[ ri-kur-uhnt, -kuhr- ]

adjective

1. that recurs; occurring or appearing again, especially repeatedly or periodically.

   Synonyms: intermittent, persistent, repeated

2. Anatomy. turned back so as to run in a reverse direction, as a nerve, artery, branch, etc.

recurrent

/ rɪˈkʌrənt /

adjective

1. happening or tending to happen again or repeatedly
2. anatomy (of certain nerves, branches of vessels, etc) turning back, so as to run in the opposite direction

Derived Forms

• reˈcurrence, noun
• reˈcurrently, adverb

Other Words From

• re·current·ly adverb
• unre·current adjective
• unre·current·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of recurrent¹

1590–1600; < Latin recurrent- (stem of recurrēns ), present participle of recurrere to run back, equivalent to recurr ( ere ) ( recur ) + -ent- -ent

Example Sentences

A later resolution further requested the commission to “investigate all underlying root causes of recurrent tensions, instability and protraction of conflict, including systematic discrimination and repression based on national, ethnic, racial or religious identity.”

From Salon

Then £13m of recurrent funding will begin in the 2024-25 financial year.

From BBC

UC Davis entomology professor James Carey, who has decades of Medfly study on his resume, told The Times: “Nowhere in the world are fruit fly invasions as frequent, recurrent, persistent, continuous, contiguous, widespread, and taxonomically diverse as those that have occurred in California.”

From Los Angeles Times

Northern Ireland's stop, start government, the pandemic and lack of recurrent budgets are, without a doubt, partly to blame but the lack of major decision making and imagination about how to do things differently with the funding available cannot be ignored.

From BBC

Then there was the granddaddy of them all, two decades of recurrent inflationary peaks from the mid-1960s through the early 1980s that encompassed price pressures from the 1960s economic expansion and the oil price shocks of the 1970s.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• frequent
• intermittent
• periodic
• recurring
• repeated
• repetitive