Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb repeat
6 senses of repeat
Sense 1
repeat, reiterate, ingeminate, iterate, restate, retell -- (to say, state, or perform again; "She kept reiterating her request")
=> tell -- (let something be known; "Tell them that you will be late")
Sense 2
duplicate, reduplicate, double, repeat, replicate -- (make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick")
=> reproduce -- (make a copy or equivalent of; "reproduce the painting")
Sense 3
recur, repeat -- (happen or occur again; "This is a recurring story")
=> happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place -- (come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important")
Sense 4
repeat, echo -- (to say again or imitate; "followers echoing the cries of their leaders")
=> utter, emit, let out, let loose -- (express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words); "She let out a big heavy sigh"; "He uttered strange sounds that nobody could understand")
Sense 5
repeat, take over -- (do over; "They would like to take it over again")
=> act, move -- (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action); "think before you act"; "We must move quickly"; "The governor should act on the new energy bill"; "The nanny acted quickly by grabbing the toddler and covering him with a wet towel")
Sense 6
reprise, reprize, repeat, recapitulate -- (repeat an earlier theme of a composition)
=> play, spiel -- (replay (as a melody); "Play it again, Sam"; "She played the third movement very beautifully")
Antonyms of adj repeated
1 sense of repeated
Sense 1
perennial, recurrent, repeated -- (recurring again and again; "perennial efforts to stipulate the requirements")
INDIRECT (VIA continual) -> sporadic -- (recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances; "a city subjected to sporadic bombing raids")
Similarity of adj repeated
1 sense of repeated
Sense 1
perennial, recurrent, repeated -- (recurring again and again; "perennial efforts to stipulate the requirements")
=> continual (vs. sporadic) -- (occurring without interruption; chiefly restricted to what recurs regularly or frequently in a prolonged and closely spaced series; "the continual banging of the shutters")