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Repeat vs Undesirable - What's the difference?

repeat | undesirable |

As nouns the difference between repeat and undesirable

is that repeat is an iteration; a repetition while undesirable is an undesirable person.

As a verb repeat

is (intransitive) to do or say again (and again).

As an adjective undesirable is

objectionable or not likely to please.

repeat

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (intransitive) To do or say again (and again).
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.}}
  • (obsolete) To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.
  • (Waller)
  • (legal, Scotland) To repay or refund (an excess received).
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An iteration; a repetition.
  • We gave up after the third repeat because it got boring.
  • A television program shown after its initial presentation -- particularly many weeks after its initial presentation; a rerun.
  • Patterns of nucleid acids that occur in multiple copies throughout the genome.
  • See also

    * redundant

    undesirable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • objectionable or not likely to please
  • *
  • There would be no need for any of the animals to come in contact with human beings, which would clearly be most undesirable .
  • * 2008 , Mary E. Klingensmith, The Washington Manual of Surgery (page 327)
  • Chronic venous disease includes cosmetically undesirable telangiectasias, varicose veins, venous ulceration, and claudication.

    Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "undesirable" is often applied: effect, consequence, result, element, change, person, substance, characteristic, quality, feature, behavior, activity, thing, event, reaction, state.

    Antonyms

    * desirable

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • an undesirable person