Synonyms for incessant
ɪnˈsɛs əntin·ces·sant

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1. incessantadjective

   Synonyms:
   unremitting, unceasing, continuous

2. incessantadjective

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

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

   Synonyms:
   continuous, unceasing, unremitting

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1. incessant

   Continuous describes that which is absolutely without pause or break; continual, that which often intermits, but as regularly begins again. A continuous beach is exposed to the continual beating of the waves. A similar distinction is made between incessant and ceaseless. The incessant discharge of firearms makes the ceaseless roar of battle. Constant is sometimes used in the sense of continual; but its chief uses are mental and moral.

   Synonyms:
   ceaseless, constant, continual, continuous, invariable, perpetual, regular, unbroken, unceasing, uninterrupted, unremitting, unvarying

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1. incessant

   Synonyms:
   continual, uninterrupted, unintermittent, perpetual, unceasing

   Antonyms:
   periodic, occasional, interrupted, intermittent

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1. ceaseless, constant, incessant, never-ending, perpetual, unceasing, unremittingadjective

   uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing

   "the ceaseless thunder of surf"; "in constant pain"; "night and day we live with the incessant noise of the city"; "the never-ending search for happiness"; "the perpetual struggle to maintain standards in a democracy"; "man's unceasing warfare with drought and isolation"; "unremitting demands of hunger"

   Synonyms:
   unvarying, eonian, changeless, perpetual, unending, everlasting, aeonian, invariant, unceasing, unremitting, constant, never-ending, eternal, ageless, ceaseless

   Antonyms:
   noncontinuous, discontinuous

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1. incessantadjective

   Synonyms:
   ceaseless, unceasing, uninterrupted, unremitting, continual, perpetual, constant

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1. List of paraphrases for "incessant":

   relentless, unremitting, ceaseless, unceasing, tireless, unrelenting, constant, continuous, continuing

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1. Friedrich August von Hayek:

   The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.

2. Elise Stefanik:

   President Biden missed a huge opportunity at the G-7 summit to stand up for America and deliver a plan to safely reopen, instead caving to Prime Minister Trudeau’s incessant desire to delay, i’ve called on the Biden Administration to begin taking unilateral steps towards easing restrictions for families and property owners, and the failure to do so is unacceptable for our northern border communities.

3. Dr Xi Li:

   Eleven million people have fled their homes in terror and millions of buildings have been destroyed, the electricity infrastructure itself is in need of wholesale re-building and repair after incessant and targeted attacks by all parties to the conflict, especially in areas under opposition control.

4. Mary McCarthy:

   Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

5. Henry David Thoreau:

   Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.