Incessant

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Incessant \In*ces"sant\, a. [L. incessans, -antis; pref. in- not
     + cessare to cease: cf. F. incessant. See {Cease}.]
     Continuing or following without interruption; unceasing;
     unitermitted; uninterrupted; continual; as, incessant
     clamors; incessant pain, etc.
     [1913 Webster]


  
           Against the castle gate,
           . . . Which with incessant force and endless hate,
           They batter'd day and night and entrance did await.
                                                    --Spenser.
  
     Syn: Unceasing; uninterrupted; unintermitted; unremitting;
          ceaseless; continual; constant; perpetual.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  incessant
       adj 1: occurring so frequently as to seem ceaseless or
              uninterrupted; "a child's incessant questions"; "your
              perpetual (or continual) complaints" [syn: {perpetual},
               {endless}]
       2: uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing; "the
          ceaseless thunder of surf"; "in constant pain"; "night and
          day we live with the incessant noise of the city"; "the
          never-ending search for happiness"; "the perpetual
          struggle to maintain standards in a democracy"; "man's
          unceasing warfare with drought and isolation";
          "unremitting demands of hunger" [syn: {ceaseless}, {constant},
           {never-ending}, {perpetual}, {unceasing}, {unremitting}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  94 Moby Thesaurus words for "incessant":
     ageless, articulated, catenated, ceaseless, chattering, coeternal,
     concatenated, connected, constant, continual, continued,
     continuing, continuous, cyclical, dateless, direct, endless,
     eternal, eterne, ever-being, ever-durable, ever-during,
     ever-recurring, everlasting, everliving, featureless, frequent,
     gapless, haunting, immediate, immemorial, indestructible, infinite,
     interminable, joined, jointless, linked, machine gun, monotonous,
     never-ceasing, never-ending, nonstop, nonterminating, nonterminous,
     olamic, oscillating, perdurable, perennial, periodic, permanent,
     perpetual, pulsating, rapid, reappearing, recurrent, recurring,
     regular, repeated, repetitive, returning, revenant,
     round-the-clock, running, seamless, sempiternal, serried, smooth,
     stable, staccato, steady, straight, stuttering, sustained,
     thematic, thick-coming, timeless, twenty-four-hour, ubiquitous,
     unbroken, unceasing, unchanging, undifferentiated, unending,
     uniform, unintermitted, unintermittent, unintermitting,
     uninterrupted, unrelieved, unremitting, unstopped, unvarying,
     vibrating, without end