ceaseless
C1
adj
Freq #47538
Meanings
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1
adj
uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing
the ceaseless thunder of surf
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2
adj
Without stop or pause, incessant.
Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.
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3
adj
Without an end.
Etymology
From cease + -less.
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