continuously
Syllables: con·tin·u·ous·ly/kənˈtɪnjuəsli/
continuously adverb: without pause.
Adverb
continuously (not comparable)
- Without pause.
- The river continuously flows to the sea, it will never pause to let us cross on dry land.
- She drove continuously for two hours.
- Synonyms:
- ceaselessly, incessantly, nonstop, consecutively, constantly, continently, continually, endlessly, eternally, ever
continuously meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
continuously in Hindi
- without pause
- लगातार lagātār, निरंतर nirantar
continuously in Tamil
- without pause
- தொடர்ந்து toṭarntu
continuously in Marathi
- continuously
- अखंड akhaṇḍa
- continuously, unceasingly, constantly
- निरंतर nirantar
continuously in Urdu
- continuously
- مسلسل musalsal
- continuously, without interruption
- برابر barābar
- continuously, uninterrupted
- لگاتار lagātār
More languagesFewer languages
- continuously in Bengali
- ক্রমাগত, অবিরত, একটানা, ধারাবাহিকভাবে
- continuously in Malayalam
- നിരന്തരം nirantaraṁ
- continuously in Kannada
- ನಿರಂತರ nirantara
- continuously in Assamese
- একেলেথাৰিয়ে ekeletharie
- continuously in Arabic
- باستمرار bistimrār
Examples of continuously in a sentence
- In the year 1633, the Bridget Nuns, near Xanthus, behaved like sheep, jumping about and bleating continuously.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 99:
- Edler (1889-1987) of Bethesda, MD kept a handwritten diary continuously from 20 Sep 1909, a total of 78 years.1994, Peter Matthews, Norris McWhirter (editors), The Guiness Book of World Records, 1994, page 400:
- "We continuously strive to improve our processes and indeed have updated our systems accordingly.2014 May 21, Andrew McGettigan, Shiv Malik, John Domokos, “Private sector and students profit at the college they call 'the ATM'”, in The...
Synonyms of continuously
- ceaselessly
- incessantly
- nonstop
- consecutively
- constantly
- continently
- continually
- endlessly
- eternally
- ever
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Antonyms
Origin of continuously
From continuous + -ly.
Words formed from continuously
Phrases with continuously
Questions about continuously
- What does continuously mean?
- Continuously means without pause.
- What is continuously in Hindi?
- Continuously in Hindi is लगातार (lagātār), निरंतर (nirantar). See Continuously meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use continuously in a sentence?
- In the year 1633, the Bridget Nuns, near Xanthus, behaved like sheep, jumping about and bleating continuously.
- What part of speech is continuously?
- Continuously is an adverb.
- How do you pronounce continuously?
- Continuously is pronounced /kənˈtɪnjuəsli/.
Words near continuously in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: continuously (page history and authors); अखंड (Marathi) (page history and authors); برابر (Urdu) (page history and authors); continuously (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); നിരന്തരം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ನಿರಂತರ (Kannada) (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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