incessant
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
incessant
adj 1: uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing;
"the ceaseless thunder of surf"; "in constant pain";
"night and day we live with the incessant noise of the
city"; "the never-ending search for happiness"; "the
perpetual struggle to maintain standards in a democracy";
"man's unceasing warfare with drought and isolation";
"unremitting demands of hunger" [syn: {ceaseless},
{constant}, {incessant}, {never-ending}, {perpetual},
{unceasing}, {unremitting}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Incessant \In*ces"sant\, a. [L. incessans, -antis; pref. in- not
+ cessare to cease: cf. F. incessant. See {Cease}.]
Continuing or following without interruption; unceasing;
unitermitted; uninterrupted; continual; as, incessant
clamors; incessant pain, etc.
[1913 Webster]
Against the castle gate,
. . . Which with incessant force and endless hate,
They batter'd day and night and entrance did await.
--Spenser.
Syn: Unceasing; uninterrupted; unintermitted; unremitting;
ceaseless; continual; constant; perpetual.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
94 Moby Thesaurus words for "incessant":
ageless, articulated, catenated, ceaseless, chattering, coeternal,
concatenated, connected, constant, continual, continued,
continuing, continuous, cyclical, dateless, direct, endless,
eternal, eterne, ever-being, ever-durable, ever-during,
ever-recurring, everlasting, everliving, featureless, frequent,
gapless, haunting, immediate, immemorial, indestructible, infinite,
interminable, joined, jointless, linked, machine gun, monotonous,
never-ceasing, never-ending, nonstop, nonterminating, nonterminous,
olamic, oscillating, perdurable, perennial, periodic, permanent,
perpetual, pulsating, rapid, reappearing, recurrent, recurring,
regular, repeated, repetitive, returning, revenant,
round-the-clock, running, seamless, sempiternal, serried, smooth,
stable, staccato, steady, straight, stuttering, sustained,
thematic, thick-coming, timeless, twenty-four-hour, ubiquitous,
unbroken, unceasing, unchanging, undifferentiated, unending,
uniform, unintermitted, unintermittent, unintermitting,
uninterrupted, unrelieved, unremitting, unstopped, unvarying,
vibrating, without end
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