Meaning of INCESSANT
| Pronunciation: | | in'sesunt
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- [adj] occurring so frequently as to seem ceaseless or uninterrupted; "a child's incessant questions"; "your perpetual (or continual) complaints"
- [adj] 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"
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| | Synonyms: | | ceaseless, constant, continual, continuous, endless, never-ending, perpetual, unceasing, uninterrupted, unremitting |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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, everlasting, everliving, ever-recurring, 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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