repeated

[ ri-pee-tid ]

adjective

1. done, made, or said again and again:

   repeated attempts.

repeated

/ rɪˈpiːtɪd /

adjective

1. done, made, or said again and again; continual or incessant

Derived Forms

• reˈpeatedly, adverb

Other Words From

• re·peat·ed·ly adverb
• non·re·peat·ed adjective
• un·re·peat·ed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of repeated¹

First recorded in 1605–15; repeat + -ed ²

Example Sentences

Health Secretary Wes Streeting is facing pushback from senior Labour figures over his repeated strident interventions against a move to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales.

From BBC

The next month, as the Center for Media and Democracy reports, when committee co-chair Liz Cheney announced that Trump had attempted to contact an unnamed witness who was set to testify, Budowich shot back by tweet: “The media has become pawns of the Unselect Committee. Liz Cheney continues to traffic in innuendos and lies that go unchallenged, unconfirmed, but repeated as fact because the narrative is more important than the truth.”

From Salon

And because the world, and one’s continued engagement with it, is a repeated litany of small erosions, it is through the practice of beauty that we learn to survive, to soar even.

From Los Angeles Times

By grounding her activism in history, she was ensuring that past injustices would not be repeated.

From Los Angeles Times

Investigative reporting has also documented the repeated attempts of ExxonMobil lobbyists to water down U.S. climate policy.

From Salon

Related Words

• frequent
• periodic
• recurrent
• recurring