ceaselessly
ceaselessly adverb: without ceasing.
Adverb
ceaselessly (comparative more ceaselessly, superlative most ceaselessly)
- Without ceasing.
- So the woods are silent, still, and deserted, save by a stray rabbit among the thistles, and the grasshoppers ceaselessly leaping in the grass.1905, Richard Jefferies, Nature Near London
- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 9, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN, page 182
- Synonyms:
- eternally, nonstop, unendingly, consecutively, constantly, continently, continually, continuously, endlessly, ever
ceaselessly meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
ceaselessly in Tamil
- தொடர்ச்சியாக, நிறுத்தமற்ற, ஓராங்கு
ceaselessly in Marathi
- ceaselessly
- अविरत avirat
ceaselessly in Urdu
- بلارکے, لگاتار, مستقل
ceaselessly in Bengali
- ceaselessly, nonstop, at a stretch, incessantly
- সমানে śomane
More languagesFewer languages
- ceaselessly in Kannada
- ಎಡೆಯಿಲ್ಲದ, ಕೊನೆಯಿಲ್ಲದ
- ceaselessly in Vietnamese
- hoài
Synonyms of ceaselessly
Forms of ceaselessly
| comparative | more ceaselessly |
|---|---|
| superlative | most ceaselessly |
Origin of ceaselessly
From ceaseless + -ly.
Questions about ceaselessly
- What does ceaselessly mean?
- Ceaselessly means without ceasing.
- What is ceaselessly in Tamil?
- Ceaselessly in Tamil is தொடர்ச்சியாக, நிறுத்தமற்ற, ஓராங்கு. See Ceaselessly meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is ceaselessly?
- Ceaselessly is an adverb.
Words near ceaselessly in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: ceaselessly (page history and authors); ceaselessly (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); अविरत (Marathi) (page history and authors); ceaselessly (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); সমানে (Bengali) (page history and authors); ceaselessly (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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