recurrent
adj.adj. happening again and again over a long period of time. You use this to describe things like problems, dreams, or illnesses that keep coming back.
adj. occurring repeatedly or returning periodically. Often describes patterns in medical symptoms, financial cycles, or thematic elements in literature.
He suffers from a recurrent back injury.
The company struggled to fix a recurrent software bug that appeared every time the system updated.
The novel explores the recurrent theme of isolation, tracing how the protagonist's early childhood experiences echo through his adult relationships and professional failures.
From Latin recurrens, present participle of recurrere. Morphologically recur + -ent.
Typically used attributively before a noun; often follows 'a' or 'the'.
a recurred problema recurrent problemLearners often mistakenly use the past participle 'recurred' as an adjective instead of the proper adjectival form 'recurrent'.