ceaseless en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈsiːsləs/
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Etymology
Etymology tree Latin cēdō Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tos Latin -tus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin -tō Latin cessōder. Middle French cesserbor. Middle English cesen English cease Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English ceaseless From cease + -less.
Meanings
- (not-comparable) Without an end.
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(not-comparable) Without stop or pause, incessant.
Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.
2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
Deriveds
Translations (24)
cs ustavičný (without an end) · pl bezustanny (without an end) · grc ἀδιάλειπτος (without an end) · la iūgis (without an end) · el ατελείωτος (without an end) · el ακατάπαυστος (without an end) · tl walang-likat (without an end) · it incessante (without an end) · eo senĉesa (without an end) · bg непрестанен (without an end) · pam balabalaus (without an end) · pam balabalawus (without an end) · tr sonsuz (without an end) · ro neîncetat (without an end) · sk neustály (without an end) · grc ἄπαυστος (without an end) · bg безспирен (without an end) · cs nepřetržitý (incessant) · ml നിലയ്ക്കാത്ത (without an end) · cs neustálý (without an end) · fr incessant (without an end) · el ατέλειωτος (without an end) · el ανειρήνευτος (without an end) · de endlos (without an end)