recurs
Comes back around
Recurs is the third-person singular of recur, meaning to happen again or repeatedly.
A recurring dream keeps coming back.
A recurring payment appears on a schedule.
Medical symptoms recur when they return after seeming to resolve: The infection recurs every winter.
The word emphasizes the pattern of return rather than simple repetition.
Coming back into view
- resurgenceReturn after dormancy
- returnGo back again
- revivalReturn after decline
- relapseReturn to former illness
comeback · reemergence · renewal · flare-up · outbreak · echo · reprise · flashback
Regular sequence of actions
- regularOccurring at fixed intervals
- customaryDone by convention
- habitualDone by routine
- consistentNot varying or contradicting
systematic · predictable · scheduled · expected · familiar · patterned · ritualistic · methodical
Occurring more than once
- returningGoing back to origin
- reappearingShowing up again
- periodicOccurring at intervals
- cyclicalRepeating in rounds
seasonal · rhythmic · intermittent · episodic · oscillating · alternating · pulsing · waxing
Continuing despite difficulty
- ongoingIn progress now
- continualRepeatedly occurring over time
- relapsingReturning to worse state
- protractedExtended beyond normal duration
long-term · enduring · unrelenting · lingering · prolonged · flaring · remitting · intractable
reappearance
Coming back into view
- resurgenceReturn after dormancy
- returnGo back again
- revivalReturn after decline
relapse · comeback · reemergence · renewal · flare-up · outbreak · echo · reprise · flashback · déjà vu
routine
Regular sequence of actions
consistent · systematic · predictable · scheduled · expected · familiar · patterned · ritualistic · methodical · clockwork
repeating
Occurring more than once
- returningGoing back to origin
- reappearingShowing up again
- periodicOccurring at intervals
cyclical · seasonal · rhythmic · intermittent · episodic · oscillating · alternating · pulsing · waxing · waning
persistent
Continuing despite difficulty
protracted · long-term · enduring · unrelenting · lingering · prolonged · flaring · remitting · intractable · refractory
- comes backreturns, reappears, reemerges, bounces back, comes around
- going backreturns, rewinds, backtracks, retreats, retraces
- runs throughflows, streams, courses, passes, crosses
recursceases
Discontinues or terminates
stops · ends · terminates · halts · discontinues
- recurring dreamsSleep visions that return
- recurring themeRepeated subject or idea
- recurring payments
- recurring charactersFigures appearing across episodes
- recurring roleRepeated character across episodes
- recurrent infectionsRepeatedly returning illness episodes
recur, recurring, recurrent, recurrence, recurrently, recurred, recursive, recursion, nonrecurring