"incessantly" meaning in English

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Adverb

IPA: /ɪnˈsɛs.ənt.li/ [US] Audio: en-us-incessantly.ogg , en-au-incessantly.ogg
Etymology: From incessant + -ly. Etymology templates: {{af|en|incessant|-ly|id2=adverbial}} incessant + -ly Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} incessantly (not comparable)
  1. In a manner without pause or stop, especially to the point of annoyance; not ceasing. Tags: not-comparable Synonyms: ceaselessly, continuously, unremittingly, continuously Translations (in a manner without pause or stop): անդադար (andadar) (Armenian), անդուլ (andul) (Armenian), etengabe (Basque), etenik gabe (Basque), incessantment (Catalan), 不斷 (Chinese Mandarin), 不断 (bùduàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 不止 (bùzhǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), 不迭 (bùdié) (Chinese Mandarin), onophoudelijk (Dutch), aanhoudend (Dutch), onophoudend (Dutch), senĉese (Esperanto), herkeämättä (Finnish), lakkaamatta (Finnish), tauotta (Finnish), jatkuvasti (Finnish), incessamment (French), sans cesse (French), d’arrache-pied (French), incesantemente (Galician), ständig (German), immerzu (German), fortwährend (German), unaufhörlich (German), in einem fort (German), állandóan (Hungarian), yhtäperrää (Ingrian), incessantemente (Italian), 引っ切り無し (hikkirinashi) (alt: ひっきりなし) (Japanese), अविश्रांत (aviśrānta) [neuter] (Marathi), ustanselig (Norwegian), անդադար (andadar) (Old Armenian), bezustannie (Polish), incessantemente (Portuguese), fără oprire (Romanian), neîncetat (Romanian), беспреста́нно (besprestánno) (Russian), непреры́вно (neprerývno) (Russian), постоя́нно (postojánno) (Russian), бесконе́чно (beskonéčno) (Russian), daonnan (Scottish Gaelic), an còmhnaidh (Scottish Gaelic), gu sìor (Scottish Gaelic), neprestano (Serbo-Croatian), stalno (Serbo-Croatian), neprestajne (Slovak), incesantemente (Spanish), sin cesar (Spanish), hoài (Vietnamese), sins djoke (Walloon), tofer (Walloon)
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  2. (obsolete) Immediately. Tags: not-comparable, obsolete
    Sense id: en-incessantly-en-adv-xo2akVdL
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: incessant
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          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1865, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “The Shipwreck”, in [Sophia Thoreau and William Ellery Channing], editors, Cape Cod, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 14:",
          "text": "There were the tawny rocks, like lions couchant, defying the ocean, whose waves incessantly dashed against and scoured them with vast quantities of gravel.",
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          "ref": "1865 November (indicated as 1866), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Advice from a Caterpillar”, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 63:",
          "text": "\"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?\"",
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          "ref": "1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 59:",
          "text": "But just there a small hairy terrier exploded out at the gate, like a floor-mop impelled by some sort of internal combustion, which sent him off into a frenzy of yapping, incessantly jerked backwards by the explosive force of his own detonations.",
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          "word": "անդադար"
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          "roman": "andul",
          "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
          "word": "անդուլ"
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          "roman": "andadar",
          "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
          "word": "անդադար"
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          "lang": "Basque",
          "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
          "word": "etengabe"
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          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "eu",
          "lang": "Basque",
          "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
          "word": "etenik gabe"
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          "word": "incessantment"
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          "word": "不斷"
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          "roman": "bùduàn",
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          "word": "不断"
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "bùzhǐ",
          "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
          "word": "不止"
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          "code": "cmn",
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          "roman": "bùdié",
          "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
          "word": "不迭"
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          "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
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          "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
          "word": "incesantemente"
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          "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
          "word": "sins djoke"
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        "(obsolete) Immediately."
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    "Terms with French translations",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "\"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?\"",
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          "ref": "1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 59:",
          "text": "But just there a small hairy terrier exploded out at the gate, like a floor-mop impelled by some sort of internal combustion, which sent him off into a frenzy of yapping, incessantly jerked backwards by the explosive force of his own detonations.",
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        "(obsolete) Immediately."
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      "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
      "word": "անդադար"
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      "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
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      "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
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      "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
      "word": "incessantment"
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      "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
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      "roman": "bùduàn",
      "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
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      "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
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      "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
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      "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
      "word": "jatkuvasti"
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      "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
      "word": "incessamment"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
      "word": "sans cesse"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
      "word": "d’arrache-pied"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
      "word": "incesantemente"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
      "word": "ständig"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
      "word": "immerzu"
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
      "word": "fortwährend"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
      "word": "unaufhörlich"
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
      "word": "in einem fort"
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
      "word": "állandóan"
    },
    {
      "code": "izh",
      "lang": "Ingrian",
      "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
      "word": "yhtäperrää"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
      "word": "incessantemente"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ひっきりなし",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hikkirinashi",
      "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
      "word": "引っ切り無し"
    },
    {
      "code": "mr",
      "lang": "Marathi",
      "roman": "aviśrānta",
      "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "word": "अविश्रांत"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
      "word": "ustanselig"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
      "word": "bezustannie"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
      "word": "incessantemente"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
      "word": "fără oprire"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
      "word": "neîncetat"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "besprestánno",
      "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
      "word": "беспреста́нно"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "neprerývno",
      "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
      "word": "непреры́вно"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "postojánno",
      "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
      "word": "постоя́нно"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "beskonéčno",
      "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
      "word": "бесконе́чно"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
      "word": "daonnan"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
      "word": "an còmhnaidh"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
      "word": "gu sìor"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
      "word": "neprestano"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
      "word": "stalno"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
      "word": "neprestajne"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
      "word": "incesantemente"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
      "word": "sin cesar"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
      "word": "hoài"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
      "word": "sins djoke"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "in a manner without pause or stop",
      "word": "tofer"
    }
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  "word": "incessantly"
}

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