ceaseless

English

Etymology

From cease +‎ -less.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiːsləs/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Adjective

ceaseless (not comparable)

1. Without an end.
2. Without stop or pause, incessant.
   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎^[1]:

     Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.

Derived terms

• ceaselessly
• ceaselessness

 

Translations

without an end

• Bulgarian: безспирен (bg) (bezspiren), непрестанен (bg) (neprestanen)
• Esperanto: senĉesa (eo)
• French: incessant (fr) m
• German: endlos (de)
• Greek: ανειρήνευτος (el) (aneiríneftos), ακατάπαυστος (el) (akatápafstos), ατελείωτος (el) (ateleíotos), ατέλειωτος (el) (atéleiotos)

  Ancient: ἄπαυστος (ápaustos), ἀδιάλειπτος (adiáleiptos)

• Italian: incessante (it)
• Kapampangan: balabalaus, balabalawus
• Latin: iūgis
• Malayalam: നിലയ്ക്കാത്ത (nilaykkātta)
• Polish: bezustanny (pl)
• Romanian: neîncetat (ro)
• Slovak: neustály
• Tagalog: walang-likat
• Turkish: sonsuz (tr)