Ceaseless
['siːslɪs]
Definition
(adj.) 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' .
Checked by Eli--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Without pause or end; incessant.
(adv.) Without intermission or end.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Incessant, unceasing, perpetual, eternal, endless, everlasting, interminable, continual, unremitting.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See CEASE]
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Examples
- Nothing irks me like the idea of being a burden and a bore--an inevitable burden, a ceaseless bore! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- We were failing under the accumulated fatigue of days and days of ceaseless marching. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- My fears for Adrian were ceaseless; August had come; and the symptoms of plague encreased rapidly in London. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Referring to this beginning of his career, he mentions a curious fact that throws light on his ceaseless application. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Another and another followed in quick succession until the jungle reverberated with the now almost ceaseless notes of their bloodthirsty screams. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- I could not answer the ceaseless inward question--_why_ I thus suffered; now, at the distance of--I will not say how many years, I see it clearly. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Here, for several years, there was ceaseless activity in the preparation of these chemical compounds by every imaginable process and subsequent testing. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In spite of his splendid spirit the ceaseless war to protect their claims had somewhat broken him, and he had despaired of ever receiving justice in the courts. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Two thousand miles of ceaseless rush and rattle and clatter, by night and by day, and never a weary moment, never a lapse of interest! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Malone, though a ceaseless talker when there were only men present, was usually tongue-tied in the presence of ladies. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Meanwhile, at Milton the chimneys smoked, the ceaseless roar and mighty beat, and dizzying whirl of machinery, struggled and strove perpetually. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The whole business of mining has been raised from ceaseless darkness and drudgery to light and dignity. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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