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- [sees-lis]
- /ˈsis lɪs/
- /ˈsiːs.ləs/
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- [sees-lis]
- /ˈsis lɪs/
Definitions of ceaselessly word
- adjective ceaselessly without stop or pause; unending; incessant. 1
- noun ceaselessly Without ceasing. 1
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Origin of ceaselessly
First appearance:
before 1580 One of the 35% oldest English words
First recorded in 1580-90; cease + -less
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Parts of speech for Ceaselessly
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
ceaselessly popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 77% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
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This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for ceaselessly
adj ceaselessly
- forever — without ever ending; eternally: to last forever.
- perpetually — continuing or enduring forever; everlasting.
- neverending — having or likely to have no end: never-ending worry.
adv ceaselessly
- incessantly — continuing without interruption; ceaseless; unending: an incessant noise.
- always — If you always do something, you do it whenever a particular situation occurs. If you always did something, you did it whenever a particular situation occurred.
- constantly — not changing or varying; uniform; regular; invariable: All conditions during the three experiments were constant.
- typically — of the nature of or serving as a type or representative specimen.
- daily — If something happens daily, it happens every day.
adverb ceaselessly
- continuously — uninterrupted in time; without cessation: continuous coughing during the concert.
- ad infinitum — If something happens ad infinitum, it is repeated again and again in the same way.
- interminably — incapable of being terminated; unending: an interminable job.
Antonyms for ceaselessly
adj ceaselessly
- halting — Archaic. lame; limping.
- intermittent — stopping or ceasing for a time; alternately ceasing and beginning again: an intermittent pain.
- interrupted — having an irregular or discontinuous arrangement, as of leaflets along a stem.
- ceasing — to stop; discontinue: Not all medieval beliefs have ceased to exist.
adv ceaselessly
- irregularly — without symmetry, even shape, formal arrangement, etc.: an irregular pattern.
- never — not ever; at no time: Such an idea never occurred to me.
- unevenly — not level or flat; rough; rugged: The wheels bumped and jolted over the uneven surface.
adverb ceaselessly
- sporadically — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
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