ceaseless

English

Etymology

cease +‎ -less

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsiːsləs/
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Adjective

ceaseless (not comparable)

Without an end.
Without stop or pause, incessant.
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎:
  Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.

Translations

without an end

Bulgarian: безспирен (bg) (bezspiren), непрестанен (bg) (neprestanen)
French: incessant (fr) m
German: endlos (de)

Italian: incessante (it)
Tagalog: walang-likat

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