incessant

English

Etymology

From Late Middle English incessaunte, from Late Latin incessāns, incessantem, from Latin in- +‎ cessāns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈsɛs.ənt/

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• Hyphenation: in‧ces‧sant
• Rhymes: -ɛsənt

Adjective

incessant (comparative more incessant, superlative most incessant)

1. Without pause or stop; not ending, especially to the point of annoyance.

   Synonyms: unremitting, continuous, unceasing

   The dog's incessant barking kept the girl awake all night.

   • 1807, George Campbell, Lectures on Ecclesiastical History, page 274:

     […] incessant interferings and bickerings, in every country, between the secular powers and the ecclesiastical.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:incessant.

Derived terms

• incessantly

Translations

without pause or stop; not ending

• Arabic: مُسْتَمِرّ (mustamirr), مُتَوَاصِل (mutawāṣil)
• Armenian: անդուլ (hy) (andul)
• Bengali: অবিরত (bn) (obiroto), অনবরত (bn) (onoboroto), অবিরাম (bn) (obiram), অবিশ্রান্ত (bn) (obisranto)
• Bulgarian: непрестанен (bg) (neprestanen)
• Catalan: incessant (ca)
• Czech: neustálý (cs)
• Dutch: voortdurend (nl), onophoudelijk (nl)
• Esperanto: senĉesa (eo)
• Finnish: herkeämätön (fi), alituinen (fi), lakkaamaton (fi)
• French: incessant (fr)
• Galician: incesante
• German: ständig (de), unablässig (de), unaufhörlich (de)
• Greek: αδιάλειπτος (el) (adiáleiptos)

  Ancient: ἀδιάλειπτος (adiáleiptos)

• Icelandic: sífelldur, þrálaus, þrálátur, viðstöðulaus, stöðugur
• Irish: síoraí, síor-
• Latin: assiduus
• Marathi: अविश्रांत n (aviśrānta)
• Occitan: incessant
• Ottoman Turkish: آراسز (arasız)
• Polish: bezustanny (pl)
• Portuguese: incessante (pt)
• Romanian: neîncetat (ro)
• Russian: постоя́нный (ru) (postojánnyj), непреры́вный (ru) (neprerývnyj), непрекращающийся (ru) (neprekraščajuščijsja)
• Scottish Gaelic: sìor
• Slovak: ustavičný
• Spanish: incesante (es)
• Swedish: oavbruten (sv), oavlåtlig (sv), oupphörlig (sv), ständig (sv)

Anagrams

• anticness, cantiness, instances, tenascins

Catalan

Etymology

From in- +‎ cessant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [in.səˈsan]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [in.səˈsant]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [in.seˈsant]

Adjective

incessant m or f (masculine and feminine plural incessants)

1. incessant

Derived terms

• incessantment

Related terms

• cessar

Further reading

• “incessant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “incessant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “incessant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “incessant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From in- +‎ cessant

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.sɛ.sɑ̃/ ~ /ɛ̃.se.sɑ̃/

Adjective

incessant (feminine incessante, masculine plural incessants, feminine plural incessantes)

1. incessant

Related terms

• incessamment

Anagrams

• instances

Latin

Verb

incessant

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of incessō