Ceaselessly

Definition: Ceaselessly

Ceaselessly

Adverb

1. With unflagging resolve; "dance inspires him ceaselessly to strive higher and higher toward the shining pinnacle of perfection that is the goal of every artiste".

Date "ceaselessly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Synonyms: Ceaselessly

Synonyms: continuously (adv), endlessly (adv), incessantly (adv), unceasingly (adv), unendingly (adv). (additional references)

Crosswords: Ceaselessly

English words defined with "ceaselessly": continuously ♦ endlessly ♦ Forever and ever ♦ incessantly ♦ restless, restlessness ♦ unceasingly, unendingly. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	A Retreat With Brother Lawrence and the Russian Pilgrim: Praying Ceaselessly (Retreat With-- Series) (reference) Self-Portrait: Ceaselessly into the Past (reference) (more book examples)
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	San Joaquin Valley. U.S. 99, the highway the migrant families ceaselessly travel. See general caption. California.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
George Bush	1989-1993	Our hearts go out to our hostages, our hostages who are ceaselessly in our minds and in our efforts.
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"Ceaselessly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ceaselessly" is used about 53 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
Adverb (general)	100%	53	46,657

Language		Translations for "ceaselessly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		aldeur (all, all the time, constantly, continually, continuously). (various references)

Albanian		vazhdimisht (again and again, constantly, continually, continuously, incessantly, non-stop, repeatedly, unceasingly, uninterruptedly), pa pushim (hourly, never-ceasing, on and on, over and over again, without cease), pa ndërprerje (flat out, without cease). (various references)

Chinese		不间断地, 不休 (endlessly). (various references)

Dutch		aldoor (all the time, constantly, continually, continuously), achtereen (all the time, at a strech, consecutively, for ... together, on end). (various references)

Esperanto		senĉese (all the time). (various references)

Faeroese		áhaldandi (all the time, constant, continual, eternal, everlasting, permanent, perpetual, sustained), í heilum (all the time). (various references)

Finnish		lakkaamatta (continuously, without intermission, without stopping). (various references)

French		continuellement. (various references)

Frisian		oanien (all the time, at a strech, consecutively, for ... together, on end), efterinoar (all the time, at a strech, consecutively, for ... together, on end), aloan (all the time, constantly, continually, continuously), algeduerigen (all the time, constantly, continually, continuously). (various references)

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

Greek		αδιάκοπα (continuously). (various references)

Hungarian		szakadatlanul (around the clock, incessantly, on end, to keep one's nose to the grindstone, to keep the enemy on the run, uncessantly), szüntelenül (incessantly, night and day, together). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		留処無く (endlessly), 止め処無く (endlessly), 止めどなく (endlessly). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		とめどなく (endlessly). (various references)

Korean		부단하게 (unceasingly). (various references)

Pig Latin		easelesslycay

Portuguese		continuamente (around the clock, constantly, continually, continuously, day and night, hourly, night and day, round the clock), semcessar. (various references)

Romanian		neîncetat (ceaseless, continual, continually, continuous, endless, incessant, invariably, never ending, never-ceasing, relentless, restlessly, sabbathless, unbroken, unceasing, unending, unremitting), mereu (again and again, all along, always, constantly, continually, continuously, eternally, ever, ever after, invariably, permanently, right along, still), fãrã încetare (without cease). (various references)

Spanish		continuamente (all the time, constantly, continually, continuously, incessantly, persistently). (various references)

Swedish		oupphörligen. (various references)

Turkish		durmaksızın (unceasingly, without cease). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	indesinenter. (various references)
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Misspellings
	"Ceaselessly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: classlessly. (additional references)
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# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "ceaselessly" (pronounced sē"zluslē)
5	-l u s l ē	aimlessly, breathlessly, callously, carelessly, effortlessly, endlessly, fabulously, flawlessly, frivolously, fruitlessly, harmlessly, helplessly, hopelessly, jealously, listlessly, marvelously, mercilessly, meticulously, mindlessly, miraculously, needlessly, painlessly, perilously, recklessly, relentlessly, restlessly, ridiculously, ruthlessly, scrupulously, seamlessly, shamelessly, tirelessly, tremulously, zealously.
4	-u s l ē	ambitiously, anonymously, anxiously, assiduously, autonomously, capriciously, cautiously, conscientiously, consciously, conspicuously, contemporaneously, contemptuously, continuously, courageously, curiously, dangerously, deliciously, disastrously, egregiously, enormously, enviously, erroneously, expeditiously, facetiously, fallaciously, famously, ferociously, furiously, generously, gloriously, graciously, gratuitously, grievously, harmoniously, hellaciously, hideously, hilariously, horrendously, humorously, incongruously, indigenously, ingeniously, instantaneously, intravenously, judiciously, laboriously, ludicrously, maliciously, mysteriously, nervously, notoriously, obviously, ominously, ostentatiously, outrageously, piously, posthumously, precariously, precipitously, previously, prodigiously, purposely, religiously, righteously, rigorously, seriously, simultaneously, spontaneously, strenuously, studiously, subconsciously, surreptitiously, suspiciously, synonymously, tediously, tenaciously, tremendously, unambiguously, unanimously, unceremoniously, unconsciously, variously, vicariously, viciously, vigorously, vociferously.
3	-s l ē	adversely, closely, concisely, conversely, densely, expressly, falsely, fiercely, grossly, immensely, intensely, inversely, loosely, nicely, parsley, perversely, precisely, princely, profusely, scarcely, sparsely, tensely, tersely, thusly.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-e-l-l-s-s-s-y"
	-2 letters: ceaseless, scaleless.
	-3 letters: laceless.
	-4 letters: asceses, classes, eyeless, lessees.
	-5 letters: allees, alleys, ceases, cellae, cesses, classy, cyeses, easels, essays, eyases, lasses, leases, lessee, lyases, lycees, lyssas, scales, scalls, selles, sycees, yesses.
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