battological
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battology — battologist, n. battological /bat l oj i keuhl/, adj. /beuh tol euh jee/, n. wearisome repetition of words in speaking or writing. [1595 1605; < Gk battología (bátt(os) stammerer + o O + logia LOGY)] * * * … Universalium
echoic — Synonyms and related words: answering, antiphonal, apish, battological, booming, confutative, conjugate, delineatory, depictive, derivative, duplicative, echoing, embodying, emulative, etymologic, figurative, graphic, growling, ideographic,… … Moby Thesaurus
echoing — Synonyms and related words: answering, antiphonal, battological, booming, confutative, duplicative, echoic, growling, imitative, iterative, lingering, parrotlike, persistent, reboant, rebounding, recapitulative, redundant, reduplicative,… … Moby Thesaurus
imitative — Synonyms and related words: apish, battological, delineatory, depictive, duplicative, echoic, echoing, embodying, emulative, figurative, graphic, ideographic, illustrational, illustrative, incarnating, iterative, limning, mimetic, mimic, mimish,… … Moby Thesaurus
iterative — Synonyms and related words: battological, duplicative, echoic, echoing, imitative, parrotlike, recapitulative, redundant, reduplicative, reechoing, reiterant, reiterative, repeating, repetitional, repetitionary, repetitious, repetitive,… … Moby Thesaurus
parrotlike — Synonyms and related words: battological, duplicative, echoic, echoing, imitative, iterative, recapitulative, redundant, reduplicative, reechoing, reiterant, reiterative, repeating, repetitional, repetitionary, repetitious, repetitive,… … Moby Thesaurus
redundant — Synonyms and related words: abundant, battological, circumlocutory, copious, de trop, diffuse, diffusive, dispensable, duplicative, echoic, echoing, effusive, excess, excessive, expendable, expletive, extra, extravagant, exuberant, fecund,… … Moby Thesaurus
reiterative — Synonyms and related words: abundant, battological, copious, diffuse, diffusive, duplicative, echoic, echoing, effusive, extravagant, exuberant, fecund, formless, gushing, gushy, imitative, iterative, overflowing, parrotlike, pleonastic, prodigal … Moby Thesaurus
repetitious — Synonyms and related words: battological, boring, duplicative, echoic, echoing, imitative, iterative, long winded, parrotlike, pleonastic, prolix, recapitulative, redundant, reduplicative, reechoing, reiterant, reiterative, repeating,… … Moby Thesaurus
repetitive — Synonyms and related words: abundant, articulated, automatic, battological, beaten, boring, catenated, ceaseless, concatenated, connected, constant, continual, continued, continuing, continuous, copious, cyclical, diffuse, diffusive, direct, drab … Moby Thesaurus
