Ceaseless

Definition: Ceaseless

Ceaseless

Adjective

1. 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".

Date "ceaseless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Ceaseless

Synonyms: constant (adj), incessant (adj), never-ending (adj), perpetual (adj), unceasing (adj), unremitting (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Perpetuity	Adjective: perpetual, eternal; everduring, everlasting, ever-living, ever-flowing; continual, sempiternal; coeternal; endless, unending; ceaseless, incessant, uninterrupted, indesinent, unceasing; endless, unending, interminable, having no end; unfading, evergreen, amaranthine; neverending, never-dying, never-fading; deathless, immortal, undying, imperishable.
Time	D calendas Groecas; "panting Time toileth after him in vain"; "'gainst the tooth of time and razure of oblivion "; " rich with the spoils of time"; tempus edax rerum; "the long hours come and go"; "the time is out of joint"; "Time rolls his ceaseless course"; "Time the foe of man's dominion"; "time wasted is existence, used is life"; truditur dies die; volat hora per orbem; carpe diem.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Ceaseless

English words defined with "ceaseless": constant ♦ endless, exasperating ♦ goad, goading ♦ Immortal flowers, incessant, infuriating ♦ maddening ♦ never-ending ♦ perpetual, perpetuity, prod, prodding, puffing ♦ spur, spurring ♦ unceasing, unremitting, urging ♦ vexing. (references)

Specialty definitions using "ceaseless": Canal ♦ Ifurin. (references)

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

I want ceaseless joy and never-ending passion like Romeo and Juliet. (3rd Rock from the Sun; writing credit: Leslie Danon; Austin Reid)

After literally an hour's ceaseless searching, I have succeeded in creating gold, pure gold! (Blackadder II; writing credit: Richard Curtis; Ben Elton)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Ceaseless Explorer: Conversations With Joseph Spies (reference) Ceaseless vigil: my lonely years in the lighthouse service (reference) Saudi Arabia: The Ceaseless Quest for Security (Cornell Paperbacks) (reference) The Ceaseless Wind: An Introduction to the Theory of Atmospheric Motion (reference) The lure of lust: the saga of man's ceaseless search for sexual excitement (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Ceaseless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ceaseless" is used about 116 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	116	29,969

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "ceaseless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i vazhdueshëm (chronic, constant, continual, continued, continuous, endless, frequent, incessant, lingering, niggling, non-stop, perennial, permanent, perpetual, persistent, regular, running, steady, unbroken, uninterrupted), i pareshtur (incessant), i pandërprerë (continual, continuous, entire, incessant, inseverable, perpetual, solid, sustained, unceasing, uniform, uninterrupted, unremitting). (various references)

Arabic		‏متواصل (constant, continual, continued, continuous, incessant, persistent, round the clock, running, unbroken, unceasing, uninterrupted, unremitting), ‏غير منقطع أبدا, ‏دائم (abiding, biennial, constant, everlasting, frequent, lasting, lingering, permanent, perpetual, quinquennial, regular, standing, substantive, unfailing). (various references)

Bulgarian		непрестанен (constant, continual, growing, hourly, incessant, steady, unending, unremitting). (various references)

Chinese		不间断 (uninterrupted). (various references)

Czech		ustavièný (constant, continual, incessant, perpetual, unceasing, unremitting). (various references)

Farsi		پیوسته (Against, Allied, Always, Away, Concomitant, Contiguous, Continual, Cursive, Eternal, Forever, Incessant, Married, Proximate, Uninterrupted), داءمی (Constant, Continual, Eternal, Perennial). (various references)

French		continuel, sans arrêt, incessant. (various references)

German		unaufhörlich (all the time, ceaselessly, constant, continual, continuously, everlasting, incessant, incessantly, incontinent, never ending, perpetual, unceasing, unceasingly, unending, unremitting, unremittingly), unaufhörliche (ceaselessly, unceasingly, unremittingly). (various references)

Greek		ακατάπαυστοσ (endless, unceasing). (various references)

Hungarian		szüntelen (eternal, hourly, perpetual, sustained, unceasing, unremitting). (various references)

Italian		incessante (continuous, continuously, everlasting, incessant, nonstop, restless, unabating, unceasing, unending, uninterrupted, unremitting, unresting). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		脈脈 (continuous). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		みゃくみゃく (continuous). (various references)

Korean		부단한 (unceasing, uninterrupted). (various references)

Manx		sheer- (amaranthine, constant, constantly, continual, continuous, deathless, endless, ever, interminable, lastingly, never ceasing, perennial, permanent, permanently, perpetual, perpetually, persistent, persistently, prefix continuous, timeless, undying, unending), gyn scuirr (continuous, endless, everlasting, everlastingly, non-stop, perpetual). (various references)

Pig Latin		easelesscay

Portuguese		incessante (incessant, never-ceasing, unceasing, uninterrupted, unremitting). (various references)

Romanian		continuu (continual, continually, continuous, continuously, hourly, incessant, perpetual, running, sustained, unbroken, unceasing, uninterrupted, unremitting), necontenit (all along, continual, never ending, permanent, right along, unceasing, unchecked), neîncetat (ceaselessly, continual, continually, continuous, endless, incessant, invariably, never ending, never-ceasing, relentless, restlessly, sabbathless, unbroken, unceasing, unending, unremitting). (various references)

Russian		непрерывный (contiguous, continual, continued, continuous, incessant, indiscrete, on-the-fly, perpetual, sustained, unbroken, unceasing, uninterrupted). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		neprekidan (continual, continuous, incessant, non-stop, on-going, round the clock, sustained, sustaining, unresting). (various references)

Spanish		sin parar (non-stop, straight off), incesante (constant, continuous, incessant, never-ceasing, non-stop, unabating, unceasing, unremitting), incesable (incessant, never-ceasing, unceasing). (various references)

Swedish		oupphörlig (constant, continual, continuous, incessant, lasting, perpetual, sustained, unceasing). (various references)

Thai		ไม่รู้จักจบ. (various references)

Turkish		fasılasız, duraksamayan, biteviye. (various references)

Ukranian		невпинний (incessant, unremitting), безперервний (continual, continued, continuous, entire, incessant, never ending, never-ceasing, ongoing, perpetual, unceasing, uninterrupted). (various references)

Vietnamese		không ngừng (everlasting, incessant, never-ceasing, truceless, unceasing, unintermittent, unremitting), không ngớt (cease, everlasting, incessant, never-ceasing, unceasing, unremitting), không dứt (constant, continuous, incessant, truceless, unceasing, unending). (various references)

Welsh		di-baid (unceasing). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	jugis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "ceaseless": ceaselessly, ceaselessness, ceaselessnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Ceaseless" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: caseless, ceaceless, chasselas. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "ceaseless" (pronounced sē"slus)
4	-s l u s	baseless, classless, defenseless, faceless, fenceless, graceless, priceless, purposeless, remorseless, senseless, sexless, useless, voiceless.
3	-l u s	accomplice, acropolis, ageless, aimless, airless, Amaryllis, anomalous, atlas, bacillus, backless, balas, blameless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, calculus, callous, callus, careless, Carolus, cashless, childless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, colorless, cordless, countless, cutlass, digitalis, directionless, doubtless, driverless, ductless, earless, effortless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, fabulous, fatherless, fearless, featherless, featureless, feckless, fellas, flawless, flightless, frictionless, frivolous, fruitless, Gallus, garrulous, gladiolus, godless, groundless, guileless, guiltless, hairless, hapless, harmless, headless, heartless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, hornless, humorless, incredulous, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, landless, lawless, leaderless, leafless, legless, libelous, lifeless, limbless, limitless, listless, loveless, luckless, malice, marvelous, meaningless, meatless, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, mindless, miraculous, motherless, motionless, nameless, nautilus, nebulous, necklace, necropolis, needless, odorless, overzealous, Oxalis, painless, palace, paperless, peerless, pendulous, penniless, perilous, pilotless, pitiless, pointless, polis, populace, populous, powerless, prothallus, querulous, reckless, regardless, relentless, restless, ridiculous, riskless, rootless, rudderless, ruthless, scandalous, scoreless, scrupulous, scurrilous, seamless, selfless, shameless, shapeless, shiftless, skinless, sleepless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, spotless, stainless, stateless, stimulus, stylus, surplus, syphilis, tantalus, tasteless, thankless, thoughtless, ticketless, tieless, timeless, tireless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, tremulous, unscrupulous, valueless, victimless, warrantless, weightless, windlass, windowless, wireless, witless, wordless, worthless, zealous, zipless.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-e-l-s-s-s"
	-2 letters: asceses, classes, lessees.
	-3 letters: ceases, cesses, easels, lasses, leases, lessee, scales.
	-4 letters: alecs, asses, cases, cease, class, easel, eases, esses, laces, lases, lease, sales, scale, seals, seels.
	-5 letters: aces, alec, alee, ales, case, cees, cels, cess, ease, eels, else, eses, lace, lacs, lase, lass, leas, lees, less, sacs, sale, sals, sass, seal, seas, secs.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-e-l-s-s-s"
	+1 letter: creaseless.
	+2 letters: ceaselessly, cleannesses, clearnesses.
	+3 letters: carelessness, facelessness, facilenesses.
	+4 letters: capablenesses, carefulnesses, ceaselessness, cleanlinesses, curablenesses, delicatessens, ethicalnesses, excusableness, gracelessness, gracilenesses, specialnesses, steeplechases, uncleannesses.
	+5 letters: accessibleness, affectlessness, amicablenesses, carelessnesses, changelessness, culpablenesses, despicableness, facelessnesses, gracefulnesses, peacefulnesses, poeticalnesses, sociablenesses, steeplechasers, tactlessnesses, verticalnesses.
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