ceaseless

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US /ˈsiːsləs/
adj Freq #47538

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing

    the ceaseless thunder of surf

  2. 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.

  3. 3
    adj

    Without an end.

Etymology

From cease + -less.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 adj · uninterrupted in time and... constantincessantnever-endingperpetualunceasingunremitting
Word family
Derived forms ceaselesslyceaselessness

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