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. 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.

2. Juana Camila Bautista:

   Human trafficking is an incessant and constant battle. It's a complicated crime that takes time to investigate, the main barrier is the terrible fear victims feel that prevents them from coming forward and reporting the crime. They don't speak out. That's our biggest obstacle.

3. 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

4. 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.

5. 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.