ceaseless

[ sees-lis ]

adjective

1. without stop or pause; unending; incessant.

   Synonyms: unceasing, constant, continuous, endless

ceaseless

/ ˈsiːslɪs /

adjective

1. without stop or pause; incessant

Derived Forms

• ˈceaselessly, adverb

Other Words From

• ceaseless·ly adverb
• ceaseless·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of ceaseless¹

First recorded in 1580–90; cease + -less

Example Sentences

Does Cronin need a general manager to help with the ceaseless cycle of turnover that has overtaken the college game?

From Los Angeles Times

Her mood “swept from deep private despair to manic irritability to frenetic highs of ceaseless activity,” Laurence Leamer wrote in the 1994 biography “The Kennedy Women.”

From Los Angeles Times

Perhaps more poignantly, Rufo’s ceaseless demonization of others goes against so much of what Salam was known for earlier in his career—and what he said he would do with the Manhattan Institute.

From Slate

Other times, though, silver can be proof of internal precious metal, a just reward for an unflinching athlete not expected to ascend the podium because their journey was pocked by ceaseless obstacles.

From Los Angeles Times

Hitler was said to have made anti-Semitism “salonfähig,” fomenting hatred of Jews in polite company by his ceaseless and hate-filled tirades against Germany’s Jewish population.

From Salon

Related Words

• constant
• continual
• continuous
• endless
• incessant
• nonstop
• perpetual
• unceasing
• unending
• unremitting