ceaseless

English

Etymology

cease +‎ -less

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiːsləs/

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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.

Translations

without an end

• Bulgarian: безспирен (bg) (bezspiren), непрестанен (bg) (neprestanen)
• French: incessant (fr) m
• German: endlos (de)
• Greek: ανειρήνευτος (el) (aneiríneftos)

  Ancient: ἄπαυστος (ápaustos)

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• Italian: incessante (it)
• Slovak: neustály
• Tagalog: walang-likat