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Incessant definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INCES'SANT, a. [L. in and cessans, from cesso, to cease.]
Unceasing; unintermitted; uninterrupted; continual; as incessant rains; incessant clamors.

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 Etymology: Middle English incessaunt, from Late Latin incessant-, incessans, from Latin in- + cessant-, cessans, present participle of cessare to delay — more at cease Date: 15th century continuing or following without interruption ; unceasing Synonyms: see continual • incessantly adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. unceasing, continual, repeated. Derivatives: incessancy n. incessantly adv. incessantness n. Etymology: F incessant or LL incessans (as IN-(1), cessans pres. part. of L cessare CEASE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Incessant In*ces"sant, a. [L. incessans, -antis; pref. in- not + cessare to cease: cf. F. incessant. See Cease.] Continuing or following without interruption; unceasing; unitermitted; uninterrupted; continual; as, incessant clamors; incessant pain, etc. Against the castle gate, . . . Which with incessant force and endless hate, They batter'd day and night and entrance did await. --Spenser. Syn: Unceasing; uninterrupted; unintermitted; unremitting; ceaseless; continual; constant; perpetual.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

An incessant process or activity is one that continues without stopping. ...incessant rain. = constant ? intermittent ADJ: usu ADJ n • incessantly Dee talked incessantly. ADV: usu ADV with v

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Ceaseless, unceasing, uninterrupted, unremitting, continual, perpetual, constant, eternal (colloq.), everlasting (colloq.).

Moby Thesaurus

ageless, articulated, catenated, ceaseless, chattering, coeternal, concatenated, connected, constant, continual, continued, continuing, continuous, cyclical, dateless, direct, endless, eternal, eterne, ever-being, ever-durable, ever-during, ever-recurring, everlasting, everliving, featureless, frequent, gapless, haunting, immediate, immemorial, indestructible, infinite, interminable, joined, jointless, linked, machine gun, monotonous, never-ceasing, never-ending, nonstop, nonterminating, nonterminous, olamic, oscillating, perdurable, perennial, periodic, permanent, perpetual, pulsating, rapid, reappearing, recurrent, recurring, regular, repeated, repetitive, returning, revenant, round-the-clock, running, seamless, sempiternal, serried, smooth, stable, staccato, steady, straight, stuttering, sustained, thematic, thick-coming, timeless, twenty-four-hour, ubiquitous, unbroken, unceasing, unchanging, undifferentiated, unending, uniform, unintermitted, unintermittent, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unrelieved, unremitting, unstopped, unvarying, vibrating, without end