'Incessant' definitions:
Definition of 'incessant'
From: WordNet
adjective
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]
Definition of 'Incessant'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'incessant'
From: 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