incessantly
22
6.3
- adverb
- /ɪnˈsɛsəntli/
:
incesantemente
- He worked incessantly to complete the report, often staying late into the night.
- talked incessantly
- work incessantly
- speak incessantly
It shatters about anything and everything and continues incessantly.
- It shatters about anything and everything and continues incessantly.
- You know, we had seven kids, nine people living in the house with me talking incessantly, right?
- One that goes beyond our sense of selves and one that transcends the darkness that comes and goes incessantly?
- But he is on that ass non-stop incessantly.
- Previous Stoic philosophers he mentions cruciferous incessantly, as well as his teacher Musonius Rufus.
Examples
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To offset his fear of failure, Daniel studied incessantly, most of the time in isolation.
Academic text (1996) -
His eye had begun twitching again; it had been twitching incessantly for five days.
Fiction book (1996) -
I think that you, you, you have to be incessantly curious.
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You drink and chatter incessantly!
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And he reminded me not that long ago in the start of my career, that the best leaders are incessantly teaching and the best teachers are leading.
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Indeed, our politicians speak incessantly about money and commerce, not about morals and character.
Academic text (2000) -
Furthermore, this ceremony is incessantly repeated at daily or half-daily intervals throughout the calendar.
Academic text (2016) -
The banks of high-tech digital recorders record incessantly as a technician holds a phone to his ear.
Fiction book (1998) -
Throughout the tunnel, the echoing hum of the massive turbines can be heard, incessantly spinning ahead.
Academic text (1993) -
The little gray wombat chattered incessantly as they trudged through the murky tunnel.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
∞
1.0
On every occasion without exception
∞
1.0
Happens without stopping
740
1.0
Very often or all the time without stopping
382
1.0
It happens again and again
139
2.9
Happening again and again over time, often with short breaks
129
2.1
In a regular way without stopping
95
2.3
Happens without stopping or pausing
73
2.3
Without stopping for a very long time
65
2.2
Happens again and again for many days in a row
53
4.9
Continuing without stopping in a strong, determined way
42
1.3
Continuing without any stops or pauses
33
3.4
Every day for a long time without any change
29
4.8
Happening all the time without stopping
27
3.5
In a way that shows steady energy and does not slow down
6
5.4
Happens every year or for a long time
6
5.3
Without stopping
5
3.7
To say or do something in a strong, repeated way that does not stop
3
7.5
Continuing very strongly and not becoming less
2
6.6
In a way that does not stop
2
7.6
In a way that goes on for a very long time with no end in sight
1
8.0
Continuing without stopping or getting weaker
1
2.5
All the time without stopping
1
5.8
Without stopping for a long time
1
6.3
Without any pause or stop
1
4.2
Without stopping at any time
1
4.3
Happens again and again at regular times
1
8.5
Without getting tired and not giving up
To go on without stopping or pausing
Antonyms
How Constant
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Incessantly comes from the parts in- 'not' and cessare 'to stop', the same root as the English word cease, so it means doing something without stopping or 'constantly'.