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English
Etymology
From Late Middle English incessaunte, from Late Latin incessāns, incessantem, from Latin in- + cessāns.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪnˈsɛs.ənt/
- Hyphenation: in‧ces‧sant
- Rhymes: -ɛsənt
Adjective
incessant (comparative more incessant, superlative most incessant)
- 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.
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)
- 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)
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Catalan
Etymology
From in- + cessant.
Pronunciation
Adjective
incessant m or f (masculine and feminine plural incessants)
- incessant
Derived terms
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Further reading
French
Etymology
From in- + cessant
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛ̃.sɛ.sɑ̃/, /ɛ̃.se.sɑ̃/
Adjective
incessant (feminine incessante, masculine plural incessants, feminine plural incessantes)
- incessant
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References
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Latin
Verb
incessant
- third-person plural present active subjunctive of incessō