un·ceas·ing

(ŭn-sē′sĭng)

adj.

Not stopping; continuous.

un·ceas′ing·ly adv.

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unceasing

(ʌnˈsiːsɪŋ)

adj

not ceasing or ending

unˈceasingly adv

unˈceasingness n

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un•ceas•ing

(ʌnˈsi sɪŋ)

adj.

not stopping; continuous.

[1350–1400]

un•ceas′ing•ly, adv.

un•ceas′ing•ness, n.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Adj.	1.	unceasing - continuing forever or indefinitely; "the ageless themes of love and revenge"; "eternal truths"; "life everlasting"; "hell's perpetual fires"; "the unending bliss of heaven" eternal, everlasting, perpetual, unending, ageless, eonian, aeonian lasting, permanent - continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place; "permanent secretary to the president"; "permanent address"; "literature of permanent value"
	2.	unceasing - uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing; "the ceaseless thunder of surf"; "in constant pain"; "night and day we live with the incessant noise of the city"; "the never-ending search for happiness"; "the perpetual struggle to maintain standards in a democracy"; "man's unceasing warfare with drought and isolation"; "unremitting demands of hunger" ceaseless, incessant, never-ending, unremitting, perpetual, constant continuous, uninterrupted - continuing in time or space without interruption; "a continuous rearrangement of electrons in the solar atoms results in the emission of light"- James Jeans; "a continuous bout of illness lasting six months"; "lived in continuous fear"; "a continuous row of warehouses"; "a continuous line has no gaps or breaks in it"; "moving midweek holidays to the nearest Monday or Friday allows uninterrupted work weeks"

unceasing

adjective continual, constant, incessant, continuing, endless, continuous, persistent, perpetual, never-ending, unending, ceaseless, unremitting, nonstop, unfailing After a few minutes, I was plunged into unceasing activity.
occasional, irregular, periodic, sporadic, intermittent, fitful, spasmodic

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

unceasing

adjective

Existing or occurring without interruption or end:

Translations

غَيْر مُنْقَطِع، مُتَواصِل

neustálý

uophørlig

látlaus

nebeidzamsnemitīgs

ustoppelig

devamlıhiç durmayansürekli

不停的

unceasing

[ʌnˈsiːsɪŋ] ADJ → incesante

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

unceasing

[ʌnˈsiːsɪŋ] adj [quest, search, labours, efforts] → incessant(e)
with unceasing regularity → avec une régularité de métronome

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

unceasing

adj, unceasingly

adv → unaufhörlich

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

unceasing

[ʌnˈsiːsɪŋ] adj → incessante

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

unceasing

(anˈsiːsiŋ) adjective

never stopping. his unceasing efforts to help the sick and wounded.

unˈceasingly adverb

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They entreated Jupiter that they might no longer be associated with the Ills, as they had nothing in common and could not live together, but were engaged in unceasing warfare; and that an indissoluble law might be laid down for their future protection.

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Sonya had cried and begged to be forgiven and now, as if trying to atone for her fault, paid unceasing attention to her cousin.

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Whether any of the relatives of the seamen whose names appeared there were now among the congregation, I knew not; but so many are the unrecorded accidents in the fishery, and so plainly did several women present wear the countenance if not the trappings of some unceasing grief, that I feel sure that here before me were assembled those, in whose unhealing hearts the sight of those bleak tablets sympathetically caused the old wounds to bleed afresh.

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The reader will here find no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness, or blessed with spontaneous fecundity, no perpetual gloom or unceasing sunshine; nor are the nations here described either devoid of all sense of humanity, or consummate in all private and social virtues; here are no Hottentots without religion, polity, or articulate language, no Chinese perfectly polite, and completely skilled in all sciences: he will discover, what will always be discovered by a diligent and impartial inquirer, that wherever human nature is to be found there is a mixture of vice and virtue, a contest of passion and reason, and that the Creator doth not appear partial in his distributions, but has balanced in most countries their particular inconveniences by particular favours.

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It did not seem particularly unpleasant, because his whole life had been not a continual holiday, but on the contrary an unceasing round of toil of which he was beginning to feel weary.

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Another group of horsemen, another regiment of infantry, another and another--all in unceasing motion toward the man's point of view, past it, and beyond.

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And it was guns and ammunition, ammunition and guns--the unceasing and eternal cry.

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You must treat with an understanding consideration the mysteries of her feminine nature, and then she will stand by you faithfully in the unceasing struggle with forces wherein defeat is no shame.

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I took up my Residence in a Romantic Village in the Highlands of Scotland where I have ever since continued, and where I can uninterrupted by unmeaning Visits, indulge in a melancholy solitude, my unceasing Lamentations for the Death of my Father, my Mother, my Husband and my Freind.

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From above came an unceasing babble of tongues, over all of which rang the mother's derisive laughter.

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Not a gleam of the lightning's unceasing blaze penetrated the windows or crevices; not a whisper of the awful tumult without reached them there.

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There were a thousand maws into which he poured unceasing streams of money.

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