Meanings
- not comparableWithout pause.
She drove continuously for two hours.
4 more examples
The river continuously flows to the sea, it will never pause to let us cross on dry land.
In the year 1633, the Bridget Nuns, near Xanthus, behaved like sheep, jumping about and bleating continuously.
1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 99George C. Edler (1889-1987) of Bethesda, MD kept a handwritten diary continuously from 20 Sep 1909, a total of 78 years.
1994, Peter Matthews, Norris McWhirter (editors), The Guiness Book of World Records, 1994, page 400"We continuously strive to improve our processes and indeed have updated our systems accordingly. Ultimately, however, it is for the student to make a proper declaration to SLC [Student Loans Company]^([sic]) to draw down funding," LSST said in a statement.
2014 May 21, Andrew McGettigan, Shiv Malik, John Domokos, “Private sector and students profit at the college they call 'the ATM'”, in The GuardianSynonyms: ceaselessly, incessantly, nonstop, consecutively, constantly, continently, continually, endlessly
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbWithout pause.
More synonyms by meaning
adverbwith unflagging resolve
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Englishcontinuous
- Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
- Proto-Germanic*līką
- Englishcontinuously
From continuous + -ly.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Ancient Greek διαμπερές, συνεχῶς
- διαμπερές (diamperés)without pause
- συνεχῶς (sunekhôs)without pause
Arabic باستمرار
- باستمرار (bistimrār)without pause
Catalan contínuament
- contínuamentwithout pause
Chinese Mandarin 不斷 /不断, 一直
- 不斷 /不断 (bùduàn)without pause
- 一直 (yīzhí)without pause
Danish kontinuerligt
- kontinuerligtwithout pause
Dutch continu
- continuwithout pause
Esperanto senĉese
- senĉesewithout pause
Finnish jatkuvasti, tauotta
- jatkuvastiwithout pause
- tauottawithout pause
French continuellement
- continuellementwithout pause
German ständig, ununterbrochen
- ständigwithout pause
- ununterbrochenwithout pause
- andauerndwithout pause
- kontinuierlichwithout pause
Hindi लगातार, निरंतर
- लगातार (lagātār)without pause
- निरंतर (nirantar)without pause
- मुसलसल (musalsal)without pause
Hungarian folyamatosan, folytonosan
- folyamatosanwithout pause
- folytonosanwithout pause
Italian continuamente, costantemente
- continuamentewithout pause
- costantementewithout pause
Japanese 連続的に
- 連続的に (renzokuteki-ni)without pause
Korean 계속, 연달아
- 계속 (gyesok)without pause
- 연달아 (yeondara)without pause
Latin perpetuē
- perpetuēwithout pause
Norwegian Bokmål kontinuerlig
- kontinuerligwithout pause
Polish nieprzerwanie, ciągle
- nieprzerwaniewithout pause
- ciąglewithout pause
Portuguese continuamente
- continuamentewithout pause
Romanian încontinuu, perpetuu
- încontinuuwithout pause
- perpetuuwithout pause
- continuuwithout pause
- fără pauzăwithout pause
- neîntreruptwithout pause
Russian непреры́вно, постоя́нно
- непреры́вно (neprerývno)without pause
- постоя́нно (postojánno)without pause
Scottish Gaelic gu sìor
- gu sìorwithout pause
Spanish continuadamente, continuamente
- continuadamentewithout pause
- continuamentewithout pause
- de continuowithout pause
Swedish kontinuerligt
- kontinuerligtwithout pause
Tamil தொடர்ந்து
- தொடர்ந்து (toṭarntu)without pause
Turkish durmadan
- durmadanwithout pause
Yiddish כּסדר
- כּסדר (keseyder)without pause
Cite this entry
continuously. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/continuously
“continuously.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/continuously. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “continuously,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/continuously.
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