incessantly en · ADV
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Etymology
Etymology tree English incessant Middle English -ly English -ly English incessantly From incessant + -ly.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) In a manner without pause or stop, especially to the point of annoyance; not ceasing.
He jabbered incessantly and annoyed everyone.
There were the tawny rocks, like lions couchant, defying the ocean, whose waves incessantly dashed against and scoured them with vast quantities of gravel.
1865, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “The Shipwreck”, in [Sophia Thoreau; William Ellery Channing], editors, Cape Cod, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 14:We see the eye subdued, the practised smile, / The word well weighed before it pass the lip, / And know not of the misery within: / Yet there it works incessantly, and fears / The time to come; for time is terrible, / Avenging, and betraying.
1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Confession”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 136:But just there a small hairy terrier exploded out at the gate, like a floor-mop impelled by some sort of internal combustion, which sent him off into a frenzy of yapping, incessantly jerked backwards by the explosive force of his own detonations.
1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 59:"You are old, Father William," the young man said, / "And your hair has become very white; / And yet you incessantly stand on your head— / Do you think, at your age, it is right?"
1865 November (indicated as 1866), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Advice from a Caterpillar”, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, [poem “You Are Old, Father William”], page 63:
- (not-comparable, obsolete) Immediately.
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Synonyms
unceasingly · extendedly · never-endingly · unrelievedly · steadily · relentlessly · constantly · unendingly · nonstop · unstoppingly · continually · uninterruptedly · eternally · ever · infinitely · unintermittedly · ongoingly · everlastingly · unbrokenly · consecutively · continently · persistently · perpetually · ceaselessly · unremittingly · incessantly · continuously · unrelentingly · successively · unremittingly · ceaselessly · continuously · endlessly
Translations (53)
hi निरंतर (in a manner without pause or stop) · xcl անդադար (in a manner without pause or stop) · hy անդուլ (in a manner without pause or stop) · ru бесконе́чно (in a manner without pause or stop) · eu etenik gabe (in a manner without pause or stop) · ru постоя́нно (in a manner without pause or stop) · de fortwährend (in a manner without pause or stop) · es incesantemente (in a manner without pause or stop) · eu etengabe (in a manner without pause or stop) · fr sans cesse (in a manner without pause or stop) · gd daonnan (in a manner without pause or stop) · nl onophoudelijk (in a manner without pause or stop) · de immerzu (in a manner without pause or stop) · de ständig (in a manner without pause or stop) · de in einem fort (in a manner without pause or stop) · gl incesantemente (in a manner without pause or stop) · wa sins djoke (in a manner without pause or stop) · izh yhtäperrää (in a manner without pause or stop) · fr d’arrache-pied (in a manner without pause or stop) · wa tofer (in a manner without pause or stop) · ca incessantment (in a manner without pause or stop) · cmn 不斷 /不断 (in a manner without pause or stop) · mr अविश्रांत (in a manner without pause or stop) · no ustanselig (in a manner without pause or stop) · ro neîncetat (in a manner without pause or stop) · nl onophoudend (in a manner without pause or stop) · nl aanhoudend (in a manner without pause or stop) · sk neprestajne (in a manner without pause or stop) · de unaufhörlich (in a manner without pause or stop) · hu szüntelenül (in a manner without pause or stop) · gd gu sìor (in a manner without pause or stop) · hy անդադար (in a manner without pause or stop) · vi hoài (in a manner without pause or stop) · fi herkeämättä (in a manner without pause or stop) · ro fără oprire (in a manner without pause or stop) · ru непреры́вно (in a manner without pause or stop) · pl bezustannie (in a manner without pause or stop) · ja 引っ切り無し (in a manner without pause or stop) · gd an còmhnaidh (in a manner without pause or stop) · sh stalno (in a manner without pause or stop) · fr incessamment (in a manner without pause or stop) · ru беспреста́нно (in a manner without pause or stop) · cmn 不止 (in a manner without pause or stop) · es sin cesar (in a manner without pause or stop) · sh neprestano (in a manner without pause or stop) · eo senĉese (in a manner without pause or stop) · it incessantemente (in a manner without pause or stop) · pt incessantemente (in a manner without pause or stop) · fi lakkaamatta (in a manner without pause or stop) · fi tauotta (in a manner without pause or stop) · fi jatkuvasti (in a manner without pause or stop) · cmn 不迭 (in a manner without pause or stop) · hu állandóan (in a manner without pause or stop)