incessant

English

Etymology

From Old French incessant

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈsɛs.ənt/

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• Hyphenation: in‧ces‧sant

Adjective

incessant (comparative more incessant, superlative most incessant)

1. Without pause or stop; not ending, especially to the point of annoyance.

   The dog's incessant barking kept the girl awake all night.

Synonyms

• unremitting
• continuous
• unceasing

Translations

without pause or stop; not ending

• Armenian: անդուլ (hy) (andul)
• Bulgarian: непрестанен (bg) (neprestanen)
• Catalan: incessant (ca)
• Czech: neustálý (cs)
• Dutch: voortdurend (nl), onophoudelijk (nl)
• Finnish: herkeämätön (fi), alituinen (fi), lakkaamaton (fi)
• French: incessant (fr)
• Galician: incesante
• German: ständig (de), unablässig (de), unaufhörlich (de)
• Greek: αδιάλειπτος (el) (adiáleiptos)

  Ancient: ἀδιάλειπτος (adiáleiptos)

• Icelandic: sífelldur, þrálaus, þrálátur, viðstöðulaus, stöðugur
• Irish: síoraí, síor-
• Latin: assiduus
• Marathi: अविश्रांत n (aviśrānta)
• Portuguese: incessante (pt)
• Russian: постоя́нный (ru) (postojánnyj), непреры́вный (ru) (neprerývnyj), непрекращающийся (ru) (neprekraščajuščijsja)
• Scottish Gaelic: sìor
• Slovak: ustavičný
• Spanish: incesante (es)
• Swedish: oavbruten (sv), oavlåtlig (sv), oupphörlig (sv), ständig (sv)
• Westrobothnian: edeli

Anagrams

• anticness, cantiness, instances, tenascins

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Catalan

Etymology

in- +‎ cessant

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /in.səˈsant/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /in.səˈsan/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /in.seˈsant/

Adjective

incessant (masculine and feminine plural incessants)

1. incessant

Derived terms

• incessantment

Related terms

• cessar

Further reading

• “incessant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “incessant” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “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.

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French

Adjective

incessant (feminine singular incessante, masculine plural incessants, feminine plural incessantes)

1. incessant

Further reading

• “incessant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• instances

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Latin

Verb

incessant

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of incessō