Word Meanings - REITERATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of reiterating; that which is reiterated.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REITERATION)

• Iteration
• Repetition
• reiteration
• harping
• recurrence
• succession
• Tautology
• Verbosity
• redundancy
• needless
• repetition
• pleonasm

Related words: (words related to REITERATION)

• HARPAGON
  A grappling iron.
• NEEDLESS
  1. Having no need. Weeping into the needless stream. Shak. 2. Not wanted; unnecessary; not requiste; as, needless labor; needless expenses. 3. Without sufficient cause; groundless; cuseless. "Needless jealousy." Shak. -- Need"less*ly,
• SUCCESSION
  1. The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of things in order of time or place, or a series of things so following; sequence; as, a succession of good crops; a succession of disasters. 2. A series of persons or things according to
• HARPING
  Pertaining to the harp; as, harping symphonies. Milton.
• SUCCESSIONIST
  A person who insists on the importance of a regular succession of events, offices, etc.; especially , one who insists that apostolic succession alone is valid.
• REPETITIONAL; REPETITIONARY
  Of the nature of, or containing, repetition.
• PLEONASM
  Redundancy of language in speaking or writing; the use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; as, I saw it with my own eyes.
• VERBOSITY
  The quality or state of being verbose; the use of more words than are necessary; prolixity; wordiness; verbiage. The worst fault, by far, is the extreme diffuseness and verbosity of his style. Jeffrey.
• REPETITIONER
  One who repeats.
• REPETITION
  The act of repeating, singing, (more info) 1. The act of repeating; a doing or saying again; iteration. I need not be barren of accusations; he hath faults, with surplus to tire in repetition. Shak. 2. Recital from memory; rehearsal.
• TAUTOLOGY
  A repetition of the same meaning in different words; needless repetition of an idea in different words or phrases; a representation of anything as the cause, condition, or consequence of itself, as in the following lines: -- The dawn is overcast,
• HARPOONEER
  An harpooner. Grabb.
• RECURRENCE; RECURRENCY
  The act of recurring, or state of being recurrent; return; resort; recourse. I shall insensibly go on from a rare to a frequent recurrence to the dangerous preparations. I. Taylor.
• HARPIST
  A player on the harp; a harper. W. Browne.
• REITERATION
  The act of reiterating; that which is reiterated.
• HARPY
  A fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture, with long claws, and the face pale with hunger. Some writers mention two, others three. Both table and provisions vanished guite. With sound of
• HARPOONER
  One who throws the harpoon.
• HARPA
  A genus of marine univalve shells; the harp shells; -- so called from the form of the shells, and their ornamental ribs.
• HARPSICHON
  A harpsichord.
• ITERATION
  Recital or performance a second time; repetition. Bacon. What needs this iteration, woman Shak.
• CAT-HARPING
  One of the short ropes or iron cramps used to brace in the shrouds toward the masts so a to give freer sweep to the yards.
• SHARPLY
  In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon.
• SHARPER
  A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Swindler; cheat; deceiver; trickster; rogue. See Swindler.
• CHARPIE
  Straight threads obtained by unraveling old linen cloth; -- used for surgical dressings.
• JEW'S-HARP
  The shackle for joining a chain cable to an anchor. (more info) which, when placed between the teeth, gives, by means of a bent metal tongue struck by the finger, a sound which is modulated by the breath; -- called also Jew's-trump.
• SHARPIE
  A long, sharp, flat-bottomed boat, with one or two masts carrying a triangular sail. They are often called Fair Haven sharpies, after the place on the coast of Connecticut where they originated.
• LITERATION
  The act or process of representing by letters.
• SHARP-SET
  Eager in appetite or desire of gratification; affected by keen hunger; ravenous; as, an eagle or a lion sharp-set. The town is sharp-set on new plays. Pope.
• SHARPEN
  To make sharp. Specifically: To give a keen edge or fine point to; to make sharper; as, to sharpen an ax, or the teeth of a saw. To render more quick or acute in perception; to make more ready or ingenious. The air . . . sharpened his visual ray
• SHARP
  scharp, scarp, AS. scearp; akin to OS. skarp, LG. scharp, D. scherp, G. scharf, Dan. & Sw. skarp, Icel. skarpr. Cf. Escarp, Scrape, 1. Having a very thin edge or fine point; of a nature to cut or pierce easily; not blunt or dull; keen. He dies
• TRANSLITERATION
  The act or product of transliterating, or of expressing words of a language by means of the characters of another alphabet.
• SHARPNESS
  The quality or condition of being sharp; keenness; acuteness.
• SHARP-SIGHTED
  Having quick or acute sight; -- used literally and figuratively. -- Sharp`-sight`ed*ness, n.