Incessant Definition

ĭn-sĕsənt
adjective
Never ceasing; continuing or being repeated without stopping or in a way that seems endless; constant.
Webster's New World

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

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

  • Middle English incessaunte from Late Latin incessāns incessant- Latin in- not in–1 Latin cessāns present participle of cessāre to stop cease

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old French incessant

    From Wiktionary

Incessant Sentence Examples

  • Instead of singing like the birds, I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.

  • He died on the 14th of July 1850, worn out and nearly blind with incessant study.

  • With an incessant hum of voices the crowd advanced to the table.

  • Courage, watchfulness, striving for purity, were all necessary in the incessant combat with the forces of evil.

  • Tribal wars were incessant.

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