CEASELESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ceaseless mean? 

• CEASELESS (adjective)
  The adjective CEASELESS has 1 sense:

1. uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing

  Familiarity information: CEASELESS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CEASELESS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing

Synonyms:

ceaseless; constant; incessant; never-ending; perpetual; unceasing; unremitting

Context example:

unremitting demands of hunger

Similar:

continuous; uninterrupted (continuing in time or space without interruption)

Derivation:

ceaselessness (the quality of something that continues without end or interruption)

 Context examples 

But here, by carrying with me one ceaseless source of regret in my sister's absence, I may reasonably hope to have all my expectations of pleasure realised.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I could not answer the ceaseless inward question—why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of—I will not say how many years, I see it clearly.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Day by day she grew queerer and more irritable, and we had ceaseless rows about nothing.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This, then, was the arch enemy with whom my father spent his life in terrible and ceaseless contest.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The weather affected Mr. Woodhouse, and he could only be kept tolerably comfortable by almost ceaseless attention on his daughter's side, and by exertions which had never cost her half so much before.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the forecastle of an emigrant ship.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

How could she 'comfort Father and Mother' when her own heart ached with a ceaseless longing for her sister, how could she 'make the house cheerful' when all its light and warmth and beauty seemed to have deserted it when Beth left the old home for the new, and where in all the world could she 'find some useful, happy work to do', that would take the place of the loving service which had been its own reward?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Advise was his word, but it was the advice of absolute power, and she had only to rise, and, with Mr. Crawford's very cordial adieus, pass quietly away; stopping at the entrance-door, like the Lady of Branxholm Hall, one moment and no more, to view the happy scene, and take a last look at the five or six determined couple who were still hard at work; and then, creeping slowly up the principal staircase, pursued by the ceaseless country-dance, feverish with hopes and fears, soup and negus, sore-footed and fatigued, restless and agitated, yet feeling, in spite of everything, that a ball was indeed delightful.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Either from the consciousness, however, that his friend had recovered, or from other consciousness, he went no farther; and Anne who, in spite of the agitated voice in which the latter part had been uttered, and in spite of all the various noises of the room, the almost ceaseless slam of the door, and ceaseless buzz of persons walking through, had distinguished every word, was struck, gratified, confused, and beginning to breathe very quick, and feel an hundred things in a moment.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Never had I formed a conception of such endless banks of houses, and such a ceaseless stream of life flowing between.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)