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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CEASELESS, a.
1. Without a stop or pause; incessant; continual; without intermission.
All these with ceaseless praise his works behold.
2. Endless; enduring for ever; as the ceaseless joys of heaven.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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" [syn: ceaseless, constant, incessant, never-ending, perpetual, unceasing, unremitting]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1570 continuing without cease ; constant <ceaseless efforts> • ceaselessly adverb • ceaselessness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. without end; not ceasing. Derivatives: ceaselessly adv.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ceaseless Cease"less, a. Without pause or end; incessant.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ceaseless Cease"less, adv. Without intermission or end.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If something, often something unpleasant, is ceaseless, it continues for a long time without stopping or changing. (FORMAL) There is a ceaseless struggle from noon to night. = endless ADJ • ceaselessly The characters complain ceaselessly about food queues, prices and corruption. = endlessly ADV: usu ADV with v

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Incessant, unceasing, uninterrupted, continual, continuous, unintermitting, unremitting. 2. Perpetual, eternal, endless, everlasting, never-ending, interminable.

Moby Thesaurus

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