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. 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.

2. Ahmed Korayem:

   It is simply bestial how people have an incessant need to own anything they can’t have and to destroy anything that they can’t comprehend

3. Marcus Aurelius:

   Some things are rushing into existence, others out of it. Some of what now exists is already gone. Change and flux constantly remake the world, just as the incessant progression of time remakes eternity. We find ourselves in a river. Which of the things around us should we value when none of them can offer a firm foothold? Like an attachment to a sparrow: we glimpse it and it’s gone.

4. James Madison:

   The internal effects of a mutable policy are [...] calamitous. It poisons the blessings of liberty itself. It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will be tomorrow.

5. Dan Bishop:

   People are astonished and amazed and dismayed at what they see coming out of Washington these days from liberal crazy clowns. Socialism. Open borders. Infanticide. 90% tax rates. Having prison inmates vote. It goes on and on, and of course, most of all, an incessant drive to impeach the president.