incessant
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6.3
- adjective
- /ɪnˈsɛsənt/
- The incessant noise from the construction site made it hard to concentrate.
- incessant demands
- incessant questioning
- incessant repetition
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Watch on YouTubeLike these sort of incessant, basically unanswerable questions.
- Like these sort of incessant, basically unanswerable questions.
- But really the, the exhausting nature of just this incessant fear over nothing drives me nuts.
- On the other hand, this is an incessant crunch, snap, spit, crunch, snap, spit all day.
- When you are the recipient of incessant stupid questions, divorce is not far enough.
- It's, it's unending, it's incessant, right?
- But what we forget is that our lives happen between those jobs, you know, And I remember when I first got here, the incessant sunshine was tyrannical.
- Maybe it's a incessant quest for glory or an assessment quest for to be liked or for connection or or safety.
- It is a space of incessant making.
- I wasn't in this incessant pursuit and hunt, right?
- And then the afternoon incessant bird whose song doesn't progress.
- And I think I get caught up in this battle of one having liquid capital and my just incessant hatred of tax.
Examples
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Al-Ani's return to Iraq in 1958 marked a period of incessant activity, not wholly devoted to the theater.
Academic text (1997) -
We need an occasional catastrophe to break up the incessant bombardment of information.
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Her days are not full of incessant talk of art and work.
Fiction book (1997) -
The late nights, the incessant phone calls.
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All her life, she had an incessant desire simply to get to the next point.
Fiction book (1991) -
It is a space of incessant making.
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Your incessant need to protect me will not redeem your own failure to protect Mother.
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Your incessant complaining isn't doing us any good.
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The hard morning rain had tapered off to an incessant drizzle, and that was fine.
Fiction book (1995) -
The fluorescent tubes on the ceiling gave off an incessant, angry buzz.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
525
2.5
Happens all the time without stopping
357
4.3
Lasting forever without end
262
2.5
Continuing for a very long time and not stopping
229
1.3
Happening without stopping for a period of time
209
2.8
Happening over a long time and not finished
157
3.7
Without a break or gap, for example in a curve
145
3.1
Continuing for a very long time with no end
129
5.1
Keeps going without stopping and stays very strong
109
3.9
Lasting a long time without stopping or getting weaker
95
4.9
Lasting for a long time and not stopping easily
87
5.8
Lasting for a very long time without stopping
72
4.5
Lasting forever without end
34
1.3
Continuing without any stops or pauses
32
7.0
Not stopping and not getting less strong
29
4.2
Continuing without stopping or being disturbed
27
4.1
Lasting a long time without stopping
13
7.5
Lasting a very long time and making you bored or annoyed
10
4.9
Not stopping or pausing for a long time
5
6.0
Continuing without stopping
3
8.5
Continuing without stopping or getting weaker, often in a bad way
1
4.4
Continuing to try despite problems
1
6.6
Keeps working without stopping after it starts
1
6.0
Expressed without pauses or breaks
1
9.6
Happening without stopping
1
4.6
Continuing without any break
Antonyms
How Continuous
Surface Forms
Morphology
incessant = cessant (opaque) = in + cess + ant
The prefix 'in-' typically means 'not', but here it does not negate the root 'cease' in a straightforward manner.
Etymology
The word incessant comes from the Latin parts in- meaning 'not' and cess- which is the same root as the English word cease meaning 'to stop'. So incessant literally means 'not stopping', which is why we use it for something that continues without a pause.