incessantly
/ɪnˈsɛs.ənt.li/
incessantly adverb: in a manner without pause or stop, especially to the point of annoyance; not ceasing.
Adverb
incessantly (not comparable)
- In a manner without pause or stop, especially to the point of annoyance; not ceasing.
- He jabbered incessantly and annoyed everyone.
- We see the eye subdued, the practised smile, / The word well weighed before it pass the lip, / And know not of the misery within: / Yet there it works incessantly, and fears / The time to come; for time is terrible, / Avenging, and betraying.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Confession”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 136
- Synonyms:
- ceaselessly, continuously, unremittingly, consecutively, constantly, continently, continually, endlessly, eternally, ever
- Immediately.
incessantly meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
incessantly in Hindi
- in a manner without pause or stop
- निरंतर nirantar
incessantly in Tamil
- சரமாரியாய், இடைவிடாமல்
incessantly in Marathi
- in a manner without pause or stop
- अविश्रांत aviśrānta
incessantly in Urdu
- دم بہ دم, ہمیشہ, لگاتاری سے
More languagesFewer languages
- incessantly in Bengali
- কেবল kebol
- incessantly in Malayalam
- ഇടവിടാതെ, നിരന്തരം, എപ്പോഴും, അനവരതമായ
- incessantly in Vietnamese
- hoài
Examples of incessantly in a sentence
- There were the tawny rocks, like lions couchant, defying the ocean, whose waves incessantly dashed against and scoured them with vast quantities of gravel.1865, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “The Shipwreck”, in [Sophia Thoreau; William Ellery Channing], editors, Cape Cod, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and...
- "You are old, Father William," the young man said, / "And your hair has become very white; / And yet you incessantly stand on your head— / Do you think, at your age, it is right?"1865 November (indicated as 1866), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Advice from a Caterpillar”, in Alice’s Adventures...
Synonyms of incessantly
- ceaselessly
- continuously
- unremittingly
- consecutively
- constantly
- continently
- continually
- endlessly
- eternally
- ever
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Origin of incessantly
From incessant + -ly.
Questions about incessantly
- What does incessantly mean?
- Incessantly means in a manner without pause or stop, especially to the point of annoyance; not ceasing.
- What is incessantly in Hindi?
- Incessantly in Hindi is निरंतर (nirantar). See Incessantly meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use incessantly in a sentence?
- There were the tawny rocks, like lions couchant, defying the ocean, whose waves incessantly dashed against and scoured them with vast quantities of gravel.
- What part of speech is incessantly?
- Incessantly is an adverb.
- How do you pronounce incessantly?
- Incessantly is pronounced /ɪnˈsɛs.ənt.li/ (US).
Words near incessantly in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: incessantly (page history and authors); incessantly (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); incessantly (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); কেবল (Bengali) (page history and authors); incessantly (Malayalam 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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