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单词 incessant
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Definition of incessant in English:

incessant

adjective ɪnˈsɛs(ə)ntɪnˈsɛs(ə)nt
  • (of something regarded as unpleasant) continuing without pause or interruption.

    the incessant beat of the music
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The traffic is constant noisy chaos, and the incessant horn honking can drive you a bit mad, but it's worth the effort!
    • The chanting started up again, broken only by the incessant pounding on the windows from the prisoners.
    • The bad condition of city roads is because of the almost incessant rain, often heavy, ever since June.
    • Kenneth seems to be enjoying Manchester - despite his incessant whingeing.
    • These sounds are fused with the latest Hindi film music, but the incessant drum beating never stops.
    • Will the lights on my cable modem and router ever cease their incessant blinking?
    • But the one thing I always had problems with was the incessant questioning.
    • The red carpet had been treated with some flame retardant chemical, and the incessant rain caused it to foam.
    • Tomorrow, the endless movement and incessant noise of home beckons.
    • In short, success is forged by the incessant sustainable growth of the company's resources.
    • The first thing you notice about Hanoi, the capital, is the incessant noise.
    • My question is: what creates this incessant need to be productive amongst librarians?
    • The incessant barking of a neighborhood dog in Nogent that day seemed a bad omen.
    • Also, they were not prepared enough for the incessant rains that lashed the city the past few days.
    • The ordeal was far from over with incessant rain beating down mercilessly upon the operation.
    • What a shame we don't hear more of them, and less of - oh, you know, the incessant bleating from the front benches.
    • A major step towards ecological sustainability is to stop our incessant shopping.
    • Does he feel no need to defend them when they come under incessant attack from his colleagues?
    • The combination of bitter cold and incessant rain was guaranteed to cool his temper.
    • Is there anything positive to be taken at all from the incessant quest by games designers to create the perfect virtual woman?
    Synonyms
    ceaseless, unceasing, constant, continual, unabating, interminable, endless, unending, never-ending, everlasting, eternal, perpetual, continuous, non-stop, uninterrupted, unbroken, ongoing, unremitting, persistent, relentless, unrelenting, unrelieved, sustained, unflagging, unwearying, untiring
    recurrent

Derivatives

  • incessancy

  • noun
    • But now fatigue a little deadened him to that incessancy of life, it seemed now just an eternal circling.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • After 20 years, Mary Byrne, teacher at the model school of the New York Training School for Teachers, began to fear the incessancy of this schoolteacher's routine.
      • One will bemoan the absence of instrumental contrast, will become impatient with its incessancy, and will lead one to argue that 40 minutes of such gentle sine wave noodling is perhaps 30 minutes more than is necessary.
      • The border, in the context of the exhibition, acts as an historic and personal leitmotif, revealing its persistence, if not incessancy in the minds of Chicano artists.
      • Second, speed, flexibility, and incessancy of market activity have replaced the scheduled rhythm of the factory floor.
  • incessantness

  • nounɪnˈsɛs(ə)ntnəsɪnˈsɛs(ə)n(t)nəs
    • I had friends outside of the high school ‘bubble,’ and I molded myself into who I wanted to be without the incessantness of high school peer pressure.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The characters drink Martinis and dress in silvery-suave style, but they also talk with a nervous, imploring incessantness, microanalyzing the rules and rituals of love in the '90s. The director captures something hilarious and touching - a new attitude of wistful modesty on the part of young macho cruisers.

Origin

Late Middle English: via Old French from late Latin incessant-, from in- 'not' + Latin cessant- 'ceasing' (from the verb cessare).

Rhymes

acquiescent, adolescent, albescent, Besant, coalescent, confessant, convalescent, crescent, depressant, effervescent, erubescent, evanescent, excrescent, flavescent, fluorescent, immunosuppressant, incandescent, iridescent, juvenescent, lactescent, liquescent, luminescent, nigrescent, obsolescent, opalescent, pearlescent, phosphorescent, pubescent, putrescent, quiescent, suppressant, turgescent, virescent, viridescent
 
 

Definition of incessant in US English:

incessant

adjectiveinˈses(ə)ntɪnˈsɛs(ə)nt
  • (of something regarded as unpleasant) continuing without pause or interruption.

    the incessant beat of the music
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The first thing you notice about Hanoi, the capital, is the incessant noise.
    • The combination of bitter cold and incessant rain was guaranteed to cool his temper.
    • The chanting started up again, broken only by the incessant pounding on the windows from the prisoners.
    • A major step towards ecological sustainability is to stop our incessant shopping.
    • Is there anything positive to be taken at all from the incessant quest by games designers to create the perfect virtual woman?
    • Kenneth seems to be enjoying Manchester - despite his incessant whingeing.
    • The red carpet had been treated with some flame retardant chemical, and the incessant rain caused it to foam.
    • Does he feel no need to defend them when they come under incessant attack from his colleagues?
    • What a shame we don't hear more of them, and less of - oh, you know, the incessant bleating from the front benches.
    • These sounds are fused with the latest Hindi film music, but the incessant drum beating never stops.
    • But the one thing I always had problems with was the incessant questioning.
    • Tomorrow, the endless movement and incessant noise of home beckons.
    • Will the lights on my cable modem and router ever cease their incessant blinking?
    • The bad condition of city roads is because of the almost incessant rain, often heavy, ever since June.
    • My question is: what creates this incessant need to be productive amongst librarians?
    • The incessant barking of a neighborhood dog in Nogent that day seemed a bad omen.
    • Also, they were not prepared enough for the incessant rains that lashed the city the past few days.
    • The ordeal was far from over with incessant rain beating down mercilessly upon the operation.
    • The traffic is constant noisy chaos, and the incessant horn honking can drive you a bit mad, but it's worth the effort!
    • In short, success is forged by the incessant sustainable growth of the company's resources.
    Synonyms
    ceaseless, unceasing, constant, continual, unabating, interminable, endless, unending, never-ending, everlasting, eternal, perpetual, continuous, non-stop, uninterrupted, unbroken, ongoing, unremitting, persistent, relentless, unrelenting, unrelieved, sustained, unflagging, unwearying, untiring

Origin

Late Middle English: via Old French from late Latin incessant-, from in- ‘not’ + Latin cessant- ‘ceasing’ (from the verb cessare).

 
 
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