Ceaseless

//ˈsiːsləs// adj

adj ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Without an end. not-comparable
  2. 2
    Without stop or pause, incessant. not-comparable

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing wordnet

Synonyms

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agelessamaranthinearticulatedcatenatedchatteringcoeternal

Antonyms

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fitful

Example

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"The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart."

Etymology

From cease + -less.

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