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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

IT'ERATIVE, a. Repeating.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: marked by iteration [syn: iterative, reiterative] n
1: the aspect of the verb that expresses the repetition of an action [syn: iterative, iterative aspect]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 15th century involving repetition: as a. expressing repetition of a verbal action b. relating to or being iteration of an operation or procedure • iteratively adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. Gram. = FREQUENTATIVE. Derivatives: iteratively adv.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Iterative It"er*a*tive, a. [L. iterativus: cf. F. it['e]ratif.] Repeating. --Cotgrave. -- It"er*a*tive*ly, adv.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Repeating.

Moby Thesaurus

battological, duplicative, echoic, echoing, imitative, parrotlike, recapitulative, redundant, reduplicative, reechoing, reiterant, reiterative, repeating, repetitional, repetitionary, repetitious, repetitive, tautological, tautologous