ceaselessly

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adverb

Without ceasing.

UncommonScrabble 16

Meanings

adverbceaselessly (comparative more ceaselessly, superlative most ceaselessly)

comparative more ceaselessly · superlative most ceaselessly

  1. Without ceasing.

    So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

    1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 9, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN, page 182
    1 more example

    So the woods are silent, still, and deserted, save by a stray rabbit among the thistles, and the grasshoppers ceaselessly leaping in the grass.

    1905, Richard Jefferies, Nature Near London

    Synonyms: eternally, nonstop, unendingly, consecutively, constantly, continently, continually, continuously

Synonyms & antonyms

More synonyms by meaning

adverbwith unflagging resolve

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Translations

Czech neustále, nepřetržitě
  • neustálewithout ceasing
  • nepřetržitěwithout ceasing
  • ustavičněwithout ceasing
Esperanto senĉese
  • senĉesewithout ceasing
Greek ατελείωτα, ατέλειωτα
  • ατελείωτα (ateleíota)without ceasing
  • ατέλειωτα (atéleiota)without ceasing
Hungarian szüntelenül
  • szüntelenülwithout ceasing
Italian incessantemente
  • incessantementewithout ceasing
Polish bezustannie
  • bezustanniewithout ceasing
Russian беспреста́нно
  • беспреста́нно (besprestánno)without ceasing
Slovak neustále
  • neustálewithout ceasing
Vietnamese hoài
  • hoàiwithout ceasing
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