The manifesto is long-winded, repetitious and often ambiguous or poorly drafted.
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Repetitious — Rep e*ti tious ( t?sh ?s), a. Repeating; containing repetition. [U.S.] Dr. T. Dwight. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
repetitious — I adjective duplicative, echoic, echoing, harping, incessant, invariable, monotonous, pleonastic, pleonastical, recapitulatory, recurrent, recurring, redundant, reduplicative, reechoed, reiterant, reiterative, repeated, repeating, repetitional,… … Law dictionary
repetitious — 1670s, from L. repetit , pp. stem of repetere (see REPEAT (Cf. repeat)) + OUS (Cf. ous) … Etymology dictionary
repetitious — [adj] wordy, tedious alliterative, boring, dull, echoic, iterant, iterative, longwinded, plangent, pleonastic, prolix, recapitulatory, redundant, reiterative, repeating, repetitive, resonant, tautological, verbose, windy; concept 553 Ant. concise … New thesaurus
repetitious — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ having too much repetition; repetitive. DERIVATIVES repetitiously adverb repetitiousness noun … English terms dictionary
repetitious — [rep΄ə tishəs] adj. full of or characterized by repetition, esp. tiresome or boring repetition repetitiously adv. repetitiousness n … English World dictionary
repetitious — repetitive, repetitious The meanings overlap, but repetitive is more than ten times as common as repetitious, and there is a difference of sense: repetitive is a more objective word and means ‘occurring repeatedly’: • A quiet but repetitive… … Modern English usage
repetitious — repetitiously, adv. repetitiousnes, n. /rep i tish euhs/, adj. full of repetition, esp. unnecessary and tedious repetition: a repetitious account of their vacation trip. [1665 75; < L repetit(us) (ptp. of repetere to REPEAT) + IOUS] * * * … Universalium
repetitious — rep|e|ti|tious [ˌrepıˈtıʃəs] adj involving the same actions or using the same words many times, in a way that is boring ▪ repetitious work … Dictionary of contemporary English
repetitious — adjective saying the same thing several times: a boring, repetitious style … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
