Did you mean tautological?
Exact Match:
Synonyms:
- no synonyms found
Related Words:
- iterative
collapse - the aspect of the verb that expresses the repetition of an action
- marked by iteration related words >
- parrotlike
collapse
- mechanically imitated or repeated without thought or understanding; "a mere parrotlike word-calling process"; "a voice quality sounding parrotlike" related words >
- battological,
- boring,
- duplicative,
- echoic,
- echoing,
- imitative,
- iterative,
- long-winded,
- parrotlike,
- pleonastic,
- prolix,
- recapitulative,
- redundant,
- reduplicative,
- reechoing,
- reiterant,
- reiterative,
- repeating,
- repetitional,
- repetitionary,
- repetitive,
- tautological,
- tautologous,
- tedious,
- tiresome,
- windy,
- wordy
- abundant,
- battological,
- copious,
- diffuse,
- diffusive,
- duplicative,
- echoic,
- echoing,
- effusive,
- extravagant,
- exuberant,
- fecund,
- formless,
- gushing,
- gushy,
- imitative,
- iterative,
- overflowing,
- parrotlike,
- pleonastic,
- prodigal,
- productive,
- profuse,
- profusive,
- prolific,
- recapitulative,
- redundant,
- reduplicative,
- reechoing,
- reiterant,
- repeating,
- repetitional,
- repetitionary,
- repetitious,
- repetitive,
- superabundant,
- tautological,
- tautologous,
- teeming
- answering,
- antiphonal,
- battological,
- booming,
- confutative,
- duplicative,
- echoic,
- growling,
- imitative,
- iterative,
- lingering,
- parrotlike,
- persistent,
- reboant,
- rebounding,
- recapitulative,
- redundant,
- reduplicative,
- reechoing,
- refutative,
- reiterant,
- reiterative,
- rejoining,
- repeating,
- repercussive,
- repetitional,
- repetitionary,
- repetitious,
- repetitive,
- replying,
- resounding,
- respondent,
- responding,
- responsive,
- returning,
- reverberant,
- reverberating,
- reverberatory,
- rumbling,
- sounding,
- tautological,
- tautologous,
- thundering,
- undamped
- imitative
collapse
- marked by or given to imitation; "acting is an imitative art"; "man is an imitative being" related words >
- apish,
- battological,
- delineatory,
- depictive,
- duplicative,
- echoic,
- echoing,
- embodying,
- emulative,
- figurative,
- graphic,
- ideographic,
- illustrational,
- illustrative,
- incarnating,
- iterative,
- limning,
- mimetic,
- mimic,
- mimish,
- onomatopoeic,
- onomatopoetic,
- parrotlike,
- personifying,
- pictographic,
- pictorial,
- portraying,
- recapitulative,
- redundant,
- reduplicative,
- reechoing,
- reiterant,
- reiterative,
- repeating,
- repetitional,
- repetitive,
- representational,
- representative,
- representing,
- simulative,
- symbolizing,
- tautological,
- tautologous,
- typifying,
- vivid
- abundant,
- battological,
- copious,
- de trop,
- diffuse,
- diffusive,
- dispensable,
- duplicative,
- echoic,
- echoing,
- effusive,
- excess,
- expendable,
- expletive,
- extravagant,
- exuberant,
- fecund,
- formless,
- gratuitous,
- gushing,
- gushy,
- imitative,
- in excess,
- iterative,
- needless,
- nonessential,
- overflowing,
- parrotlike,
- pleonastic,
- prodigal,
- productive,
- profuse,
- profusive,
- prolific,
- prolix,
- recapitulative,
- redundant,
- reduplicative,
- reechoing,
- reiterant,
- reiterative,
- repeating,
- repetitional,
- repetitionary,
- repetitious,
- repetitive,
- spare,
- superabundant,
- supererogatory,
- superfluous,
- tautologic,
- tautological,
- teeming,
- to spare,
- uncalled-for,
- unessential,
- unnecessary,
- unneeded,
- verbose
- abundant,
- battological,
- circumlocutory,
- copious,
- de trop,
- diffuse,
- diffusive,
- dispensable,
- duplicative,
- echoic,
- echoing,
- effusive,
- excess,
- excessive,
- expendable,
- expletive,
- extra,
- extravagant,
- exuberant,
- fecund,
- formless,
- gratuitous,
- gushing,
- gushy,
- imitative,
- in excess,
- inessential,
- iterative,
- long-winded,
- needless,
- nonessential,
- overflowing,
- parrotlike,
- pleonastic,
- prodigal,
- productive,
- profuse,
- profusive,
- prolific,
- prolix,
- recapitulative,
- reduplicative,
- reechoing,
- reiterant,
- reiterative,
- repeating,
- repetitional,
- repetitionary,
- repetitious,
- repetitive,
- roundabout,
- spare,
- superabundant,
- supererogatory,
- superfluous,
- supernumerary,
- surplus,
- tautologic,
- tautological,
- tautologous,
- teeming,
- to spare,
- uncalled-for,
- unessential,
- unnecessary,
- unneeded,
- unwanted,
- verbose,
- windy,
- wordy
- echoic
collapse
- (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound; "onomatopoeic words are imitative of noises"; "it was independently developed in more than one place as an onomatopoetic term"- Harry Hoijer
- like or characteristic of an echo related words >
- answering,
- antiphonal,
- apish,
- battological,
- booming,
- confutative,
- conjugate,
- delineatory,
- depictive,
- derivative,
- duplicative,
- echoing,
- embodying,
- emulative,
- etymologic,
- figurative,
- graphic,
- growling,
- ideographic,
- illustrational,
- illustrative,
- imitative,
- incarnating,
- iterative,
- lexical,
- lexicographic,
- lexicologic,
- lexigraphic,
- limning,
- lingering,
- mimetic,
- mimic,
- mimish,
- onomastic,
- onomatologic,
- onomatopoeic,
- onomatopoetic,
- paronymic,
- paronymous,
- parrotlike,
- persistent,
- personifying,
- pictographic,
- pictorial,
- portraying,
- reboant,
- rebounding,
- recapitulative,
- redundant,
- reduplicative,
- reechoing,
- refutative,
- reiterant,
- reiterative,
- rejoining,
- repeating,
- repercussive,
- repetitional,
- repetitionary,
- repetitious,
- repetitive,
- replying,
- representational,
- representative,
- representing,
- resounding,
- respondent,
- responding,
- responsive,
- returning,
- reverberant,
- reverberating,
- reverberatory,
- rumbling,
- simulative,
- sounding,
- symbolizing,
- tautological,
- tautologous,
- thundering,
- typifying,
- undamped,
- vivid
- repetitive
collapse
- characterized by repetition; "repetitive movement" related words >
- abundant,
- articulated,
- automatic,
- battological,
- beaten,
- boring,
- catenated,
- ceaseless,
- concatenated,
- connected,
- constant,
- continual,
- continued,
- continuing,
- continuous,
- copious,
- cyclical,
- diffuse,
- diffusive,
- direct,
- drab,
- duplicative,
- echoic,
- echoing,
- effusive,
- endless,
- extravagant,
- exuberant,
- featureless,
- fecund,
- formless,
- frequent,
- gapless,
- gray,
- gushing,
- gushy,
- habitual,
- hackneyed,
- humdrum,
- imitative,
- immediate,
- incessant,
- interminable,
- iterative,
- joined,
- jointless,
- linked,
- monotonous,
- never-ending,
- nonstop,
- overflowing,
- parrotlike,
- perennial,
- periodic,
- persistent,
- pleonastic,
- prodigal,
- productive,
- profuse,
- profusive,
- prolific,
- recapitulative,
- recurrent,
- recurring,
- redundant,
- reduplicative,
- reechoing,
- regular,
- reiterant,
- reiterative,
- relentless,
- repeated,
- repeating,
- repetitional,
- repetitionary,
- repetitious,
- round-the-clock,
- routine,
- running,
- same,
- samely,
- seamless,
- serried,
- smooth,
- stable,
- steady,
- stereotyped,
- straight,
- superabundant,
- tautological,
- tautologous,
- tedious,
- teeming,
- trite,
- twenty-four-hour,
- unbroken,
- unceasing,
- undifferentiated,
- unending,
- uniform,
- unintermitted,
- unintermittent,
- unintermitting,
- uninterrupted,
- unrelieved,
- unremitting,
- unstopped,
- well-trodden,
- well-worn
1
Advertisement