Three babies crying incessantly gave me a headache.
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Incessantly
//ɪnˈsɛs.ənt.li//
Synonyms for "incessantly" (108 found)
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Closest matches (22)
Strong matches (32)
Related words (54)
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Synonyms
3 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
6 entriesTranslations
52 translations across 27 languages.
Armenian
2 entries- անդադար adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
- անդուլ adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
Basque
2 entries- etengabe adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
- etenik gabe adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
Catalan
1 entries- incessantment adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 不斷 /不断 adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
- 不止 adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
- 不迭 adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
Dutch
3 entries- aanhoudend adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
- onophoudelijk adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
- onophoudend adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
Esperanto
1 entries- senĉese adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
Finnish
4 entries- herkeämättä adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
- jatkuvasti adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
- lakkaamatta adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
- tauotta adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
French
3 entries- d’arrache-pied adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
- incessamment adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
- sans cesse adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
Galician
1 entries- incesantemente adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
German
4 entries- fortwährend adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
- immerzu adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
- in einem fort adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
- ständig adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
Hungarian
2 entries- szüntelenül adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
- állandóan adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
Ingrian
1 entries- yhtäperrää adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
Italian
1 entries- incessantemente adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
Japanese
1 entries- 引っ切り無し adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
Marathi
1 entries- अविश्रांत adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
Norwegian
1 entries- ustanselig adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
Old Armenian
1 entries- անդադար adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
Polish
1 entries- bezustannie adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
Portuguese
1 entries- incessantemente adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
Romanian
2 entries- fără oprire adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
- neîncetat adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
Russian
4 entries- бесконе́чно adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
- беспреста́нно adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
- непреры́вно adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
- постоя́нно adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
Scottish Gaelic
3 entries- an còmhnaidh adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
- daonnan adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
- gu sìor adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- neprestano adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
- stalno adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
Slovak
1 entries- neprestajne adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
Spanish
2 entries- incesantemente adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
- sin cesar adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
Vietnamese
1 entries- hoài adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
Walloon
2 entries- sins djoke adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
- tofer adv (in a manner without pause or stop)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
On Saturday night and all day Sunday, my cell phone rang incessantly, as a mortified Tom tried to apologize.
Source: tatoeba (2237912)
She nagged her husband incessantly about minor things.
Source: tatoeba (2332807)
I spent that day listening to the lonely scrapings of a pen. During that time, from time to time, I heard a Java sparrow twittering. It occurred to me that maybe Java sparrows twitter out of loneliness too. I walked out to the veranda to see. Nevertheless, flying to and fro between two perches busily and incessantly, it did not show the slightest hint of grievance.
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