ceaseless
pronunciation
How to pronounce ceaseless in British English: UK [ˈsiːsləs]
How to pronounce ceaseless in American English: US [ˈsiːsləs]
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- Adjective:
- uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing
Word Origin
- ceaseless (adj.)
- 1580s, from cease (n.) + -less. Related: Ceaselessly; ceaselessness.
Example
- 1. It companies make a lot of money selling equipment that facilitates this ceaseless copying .
- 2. Beijing would very quickly overwhelm me with its size its complexity and its ceaseless activity too but before and on top of everything else there was the smog .
- 3. Their ceaseless circulation spreads ideas and expertise as the body 's blood spreads oxygen and glucose .
- 4. Over the past 20 years , those shattering events which led to the disintegration of an empire , an economy , an ideology and a political regime have caused ceaseless controversy .
- 5. Faust reminds us of the way books are totems against ceaseless activity , tools for securing the somatic calm that is the beginning of all careful but also visionary thought .