incessant
English
editEtymology
editFrom Late Middle English incessaunte, from Late Latin incessāns, incessantem, from Latin in- + cessāns.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ɪnˈsɛs.ənt/
Audio (General American): (file) Audio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: in‧ces‧sant
- Rhymes: -ɛsənt
Adjective
editincessant (comparative more incessant, superlative most incessant)
- Without pause or stop; not ending, especially to the point of annoyance.
- Synonyms: unremitting, continuous, unceasing
- The dog's incessant barking kept the girl awake all night.
- 1807, George Campbell, Lectures on Ecclesiastical History, page 274:
- […] incessant interferings and bickerings, in every country, between the secular powers and the ecclesiastical.
- 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species:
- The face of Nature may be compared to a yielding surface, with ten thousand sharp wedges packed close together and driven inwards by incessant blows, sometimes one wedge being struck, and then another with greater force.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:incessant.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editwithout pause or stop; not ending
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editCatalan
editEtymology
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editAdjective
editincessant m or f (masculine and feminine plural incessants)
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editFurther reading
edit- “incessant”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
- “incessant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
- “incessant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “incessant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
editEtymology
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editAdjective
editincessant (feminine incessante, masculine plural incessants, feminine plural incessantes)
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editReferences
edit- ^ “incessant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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editVerb
editincessant
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