continuously

English

Etymology

continuous +‎ -ly

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kənˈtɪnjuəsli/
• Hyphenation: con‧tin‧u‧ous‧ly

Adverb

continuously (not comparable)

1. Without pause.

   The river continuously flows to the sea, it will never pause to let us cross on dry land.

   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 99:

     In the year 1633, the Bridget Nuns, near Xanthus, behaved like sheep, jumping about and bleating continuously.

Synonyms

• ceaselessly, incessantly, nonstop; see also Thesaurus:continuously

Translations

without pause

• Armenian: անդուլ (hy) (andul), անընդհատ (hy) (anəndhat)
• Assamese: একেলেথাৰিয়ে (ekeletharie)
• Catalan: contínuament (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不斷 (zh), 不断 (zh) (bùduàn), 一直 (zh) (yīzhí)

• Danish: kontinuerligt
• Dutch: continu (nl)
• Esperanto: senĉese
• Finnish: jatkuvasti (fi), tauotta (fi)
• French: continuellement (fr)
• Galician: continuamente, continuadamente, arreo
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: ständig (de), ununterbrochen (de), andauernd (de), kontinuierlich (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: διαμπερές (diamperés), συνεχῶς (sunekhôs)

• Hindi: लगातार (hi) (lagātār)
• Hungarian: folyamatosan (hu)

• Italian: continuamente (it), costantemente (it)
• Japanese: 連続的に (ja) (れんぞくてきに, renzokuteki-ni)
• Kabuverdianu: afiu
• Korean: 계속(繼續) (ko) (gyesok), 연달아 (yeondara)
• Latin: perpetuē
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kontinuerlig (no)

  Nynorsk: kontinuerleg

• Polish: nieprzerwanie (pl), ciągle (pl)
• Portuguese: continuamente (pt)
• Romanian: încontinuu (ro), perpetuu (ro), continuu (ro), fără pauză, neîntrerupt (ro)
• Russian: непреры́вно (ru) (neprerývno), постоя́нно (ru) (postojánno)
• Scottish Gaelic: gu sìor
• Spanish: continuadamente, continuamente (es), de continuo
• Swedish: kontinuerligt (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: durmadan (tr)
• Yiddish: כּסדר‎ (keseyder)