Incessant
adjective
Something that is incessant continues without stopping.
The incessant rain was causing the river to overflow its banks.
adjective
Something that is incessant is annoying you because it continues without stopping.
We were kept awake by the incessant noise of the traffic.
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Something that is incessant continues without stopping.
The incessant rain was causing the river to overflow its banks.
adjective
Something that is incessant is annoying you because it continues without stopping.
We were kept awake by the incessant noise of the traffic.
Usage tips
Disapproving
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Pro Tip 1/3Never Stops
Use 'incessant' to describe actions or events that feel like they are going on endlessly without any pause.
The baby's incessant crying wore out the exhausted parents.
Pro Tip 2/3Neutral Tone
'Incessant' can simply describe continuity without implying good or bad, depending on context.
The metronome's incessant ticking helped the pianist keep tempo.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Contexts
Often, 'incessant' is used in contexts that suggest irritation or disturbance.
He found it impossible to focus with the incessant construction noise.
Pro Tip 1/3Never Stops
Use 'incessant' to describe actions or events that feel like they are going on endlessly without any pause.
The baby's incessant crying wore out the exhausted parents.
Pro Tip 2/3Neutral Tone
'Incessant' can simply describe continuity without implying good or bad, depending on context.
The metronome's incessant ticking helped the pianist keep tempo.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Contexts
Often, 'incessant' is used in contexts that suggest irritation or disturbance.
He found it impossible to focus with the incessant construction noise.
Pro Tip 1/3Never Stops
Use 'incessant' to describe actions or events that feel like they are going on endlessly without any pause.
The baby's incessant crying wore out the exhausted parents.
Pro Tip 2/3Neutral Tone
'Incessant' can simply describe continuity without implying good or bad, depending on context.
The metronome's incessant ticking helped the pianist keep tempo.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Contexts
Often, 'incessant' is used in contexts that suggest irritation or disturbance.
He found it impossible to focus with the incessant construction noise.
Compare with
ceasecontinuousendlesseternalinterruptperpetualpersistentrelentlessunending
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Video examples
Ryan Lobo: Photographing...
I accompanied these women on their patrols, and watched as they walked past men, many who passed very lewd comments incessantly. And when I asked one of the women about the shock and awe response, she said, "Don't worry, same thing back home. We know how to deal with these fellows,"
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Blind Terrier PIPE Dog...
now he's out this is what he wanted in essence he's drawn me back to his carrier where he is barking incessantly and then I've lured him out you just have to give it up get one up that he's a human first okay and I'm gonna say give it up for Ellen you said put him in a different
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Safari Live - Day 166 PIPE...
might even displace completely displace a breeding pair or territorial pair because the caller here is louder or it's more incessant than them and you can completely affect their life so it's very important to be ethical when it comes to playing calls play it once see
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Safari Live - Day 284 PIPE...
drooling incessantly and he sign of of a stress and also testosterone build up within the cat due to possibly some conflict what exactly the purpose of the saliva overed indulgence is really I'm unsure of maybe someone up that can inform me if they know why do male
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How changing your story...
like the incessant texting or the going through his drawers, that tend to lead to this outcome. We see the problem, it's like, if a fight breaks out in every bar you're going to, it might be you. In order to be good editors, we need to offer wise compassion,
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Our loss of wisdom -...
learn from our improvisation and moral will is on mind by an incessant appeal to incentives that destroy our desire to do the right thing and without intending it by appealing to rules and incentives we are engaging in a war on wisdom let me
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What Bruce Lee can teach...
Don't go out and find a successful personality and duplicate it, but rather start from the very root of your being, which is 'How can I be me?'" Many of us have done some soul-searching or at least some incessant thinking and worrying
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Barry Schwartz: Our loss...
And moral will is undermined by an incessant appeal to incentives that destroy our desire to do the right thing. And without intending it, by appealing to rules and incentives, we are engaging in a war on wisdom.
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Life is messy. Embrace...
boxes and cleaned incessantly but the order and symmetry were not an antidote strong enough it wasn't until I let myself be wrapped in the dizzying embrace of chaos that I found peace in
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Feeding a Cute Black...
spirit of the me back incessant buzzing of mosquitoes there drinking the formula milk asleep at the barre hours of waiting
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Ryan Lobo: Photographing...
I accompanied these women on their patrols, and watched as they walked past men, many who passed very lewd comments incessantly. And when I asked one of the women about the shock and awe response, she said, "Don't worry, same thing back home. We know how to deal with these fellows,"
Video examples
Blind Terrier PIPE Dog...
now he's out this is what he wanted in essence he's drawn me back to his carrier where he is barking incessantly and then I've lured him out you just have to give it up get one up that he's a human first okay and I'm gonna say give it up for Ellen you said put him in a different
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 166 PIPE...
might even displace completely displace a breeding pair or territorial pair because the caller here is louder or it's more incessant than them and you can completely affect their life so it's very important to be ethical when it comes to playing calls play it once see
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 284 PIPE...
drooling incessantly and he sign of of a stress and also testosterone build up within the cat due to possibly some conflict what exactly the purpose of the saliva overed indulgence is really I'm unsure of maybe someone up that can inform me if they know why do male
Video examples
How changing your story...
like the incessant texting or the going through his drawers, that tend to lead to this outcome. We see the problem, it's like, if a fight breaks out in every bar you're going to, it might be you. In order to be good editors, we need to offer wise compassion,
Video examples
Our loss of wisdom -...
learn from our improvisation and moral will is on mind by an incessant appeal to incentives that destroy our desire to do the right thing and without intending it by appealing to rules and incentives we are engaging in a war on wisdom let me
Video examples
What Bruce Lee can teach...
Don't go out and find a successful personality and duplicate it, but rather start from the very root of your being, which is 'How can I be me?'" Many of us have done some soul-searching or at least some incessant thinking and worrying
Video examples
Barry Schwartz: Our loss...
And moral will is undermined by an incessant appeal to incentives that destroy our desire to do the right thing. And without intending it, by appealing to rules and incentives, we are engaging in a war on wisdom.
Video examples
Life is messy. Embrace...
boxes and cleaned incessantly but the order and symmetry were not an antidote strong enough it wasn't until I let myself be wrapped in the dizzying embrace of chaos that I found peace in
Video examples
Feeding a Cute Black...
spirit of the me back incessant buzzing of mosquitoes there drinking the formula milk asleep at the barre hours of waiting
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Quote examples
Paul Craig Roberts
American Economist
Putin responds to threats, to illegal sanctions, and to incessant propaganda with statements that governments need to respect each other's national interests and to work together for common benefit. No politician in the West speaks in this way.
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Marcus Brigstocke
English Comedian
Political correctness is as exploitable as any other progressive ideal, but its aim is to stifle the incessant noise of those who flap their careless lips without a thought about those they might offend and why that might be important.
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Douglas MacArthur
American General
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
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Morena Baccarin
Brazilian Actress
The lamest excuse that I get incessantly is, 'Oh, we're not going ethnic with that role,' so I can't go in for it, or I can't get the part, which is really stupid, because, in today's world, people look different.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
American Author
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
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Camille Pissarro
French Artist
It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.
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Henry David Thoreau
American Author
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
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Don Winslow
American Author
My earliest influence was Shakespeare - I read Shakespeare incessantly as a kid.
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Henri Frederic Amiel
Swiss Philosopher
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
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June Jordan
American Writer
It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me.
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Paul Craig Roberts
American Economist
Putin responds to threats, to illegal sanctions, and to incessant propaganda with statements that governments need to respect each other's national interests and to work together for common benefit. No politician in the West speaks in this way.
Quote examples
Marcus Brigstocke
English Comedian
Political correctness is as exploitable as any other progressive ideal, but its aim is to stifle the incessant noise of those who flap their careless lips without a thought about those they might offend and why that might be important.
Quote examples
Douglas MacArthur
American General
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
Quote examples
Morena Baccarin
Brazilian Actress
The lamest excuse that I get incessantly is, 'Oh, we're not going ethnic with that role,' so I can't go in for it, or I can't get the part, which is really stupid, because, in today's world, people look different.
Quote examples
F. Scott Fitzgerald
American Author
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
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Camille Pissarro
French Artist
It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.
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Henry David Thoreau
American Author
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
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Don Winslow
American Author
My earliest influence was Shakespeare - I read Shakespeare incessantly as a kid.
Quote examples
Henri Frederic Amiel
Swiss Philosopher
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
Quote examples
June Jordan
American Writer
It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me.
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