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ceaselessly

adverbC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #13,434 of 15,258neutral

Ceaselessly means without ever stopping. Rained ceaselessly, worked ceaselessly, campaigned ceaselessly.

It is admiring of effort and weary about weather, which is the whole range of the word. It is stronger than constantly and carries the sense that somebody wished it would stop.

Definitions of ceaselessly

  1. 1adverbceaselesslyWithout ever stopping.C1

    “The volunteers worked ceaselessly through the night to rescue people from the flood.”

ceaselessly is a manner.

Where it comes from

From ceaseless + -ly.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

ceaselessly in the wild

  • The books publication was ceaselessly reported as imminent for publication throughout 1831 and early 1834.

    Mikhail Zagoskin

  • Here he worked ceaselessly to glorify the name of Seraphim, who had died in 1833.

    Nikolay Motovilov

  • Gandalf ceaselessly assists the Company of the Ring in their quest to destroy the Ring and defeat Sauron.

    Wizards in Middle-earth

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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