1. (a.) Returning from time to time; recurring; as, recurrent pains\.

2. (a.) Running back toward its origin; as, a recurrent nerve or artery.

alternate articulated automatic beaten beating catenated ceaseless circling common concatenated connected constant continual continued continuing continuous cyclic cyclical direct endless epochal even ever-recurring every other everyday featureless frequent frequentative gapless habitual hackneyed haunting immediate incessant indelible interminable intermittent isochronal isochronous iterative joined jointless linked many many times measured metronomic monotonous nagging never-ending nonstop not rare obsessive of common occurrence oft-repeated oftentime ordinary oscillatory perennial periodic periodical persistent prevalent pulsing reappearing reciprocal recurring regular repeated repetitious repetitive returning revenant rhythmic rotary round-the-clock routine running seamless seasonal serial serried smooth stable steady stereotyped straight thematic thick-coming trite twenty-four-hour ubiquitous unbroken unceasing undifferentiated undulant undulatory unending unforgettable uniform unintermitted unintermittent unintermitting uninterrupted unrelieved unremitting unstopped usual wavelike well-trodden well-worn wheeling