Definitions for recurrent

recurrent re·cur·rent

Spelling: [ri-kur-uh nt, -kuhr-]
IPA: /rɪˈkɜr ənt, -ˈkʌr-/

Recurrent is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 148 anagrams from letters in recurrent (ceenrrrtu).

Definitions for recurrent

adjective

  1. that recurs; occurring or appearing again, especially repeatedly or periodically.
  2. Anatomy. turned back so as to run in a reverse direction, as a nerve, artery, branch, etc.

Origin of recurrent

1590-1600; Latin recurrent- (stem of recurrēns), present participle of recurrere to run back, equivalent to recurr(ere) (see recur) + -ent- Examples for recurrent

Our political life seems to have a recurrent pattern that, perhaps not surprisingly, mirrors so much of our non-political life.

Tymoshenko has suffered from recurrent medical problems and appeared in Kiev in a wheelchair.

Alone, the thought of him was recurrent, no matter how resolutely she cast it forth.

When it is caused by agents in the blood, it may be intermittent or recurrent.

The cry of corruption is a recurrent note in the history of democracies.

Side effects may include recession, job contraction, 401(k) bruising, recurrent Dow fluctuation, and IRA bleeding.

Every protagonist in previous Johnson films have been orphans, or their parents were nonexistent, a recurrent theme in Star Wars.

Halpern prescribes the medi-meth for patients who get recurrent urinary-tract infections—a side effect from Adderall or Ritalin.

She was dismayed to find that temptation was a recurrent thing.

Can science find no check upon these recurrent forms of disease?

Word Value for recurrent
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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