Meanings
adverbstoplessly (not comparable)
- not comparableIn a stopless manner.
And that woman (God bless her), a real skinny ugliness, with dyed black hair like a gypsy, and a tongue that ran stoplessly on relentless ball-bearings, was so jealous of Little Hannah that, if it were only possible, she would have ripped and hacked her to pieces just with her eyes.
1969, Hilda Shubert, They came from Kernitza, page 156
Origin
From stopless + -ly. Attested since the 20th century.
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APA
stoplessly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stoplessly
MLA
“stoplessly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stoplessly. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “stoplessly,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stoplessly.
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