iterative 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}]
Iterative \It"er*a*tive\, a. [L. iterativus: cf. F. it['e]ratif.] Repeating. --Cotgrave. -- {It"er*a*tive*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster]
19 Moby Thesaurus words for "iterative": battological, duplicative, echoic, echoing, imitative, parrotlike, recapitulative, redundant, reduplicative, reechoing, reiterant, reiterative, repeating, repetitional, repetitionary, repetitious, repetitive, tautological, tautologous