CEASELESSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ceaselessly mean? 

• CEASELESSLY (adverb)
  The adverb CEASELESSLY has 1 sense:

1. with unflagging resolve

  Familiarity information: CEASELESSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CEASELESSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With unflagging resolve

Synonyms:

ceaselessly; continuously; endlessly; incessantly; unceasingly; unendingly

Context example:

dance inspires him ceaselessly to strive higher and higher toward the shining pinnacle of perfection that is the goal of every artiste

Pertainym:

ceaseless (uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing)

 Context examples 

They were never quiet, ceaselessly playing deck-quoits, tossing rings, promenading, or rushing to the rail with loud cries to watch the leaping porpoises and the first schools of flying fish.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I had perception enough to know that my mother was the victim always; that she was afraid to speak to me or to be kind to me, lest she should give them some offence by her manner of doing so, and receive a lecture afterwards; that she was not only ceaselessly afraid of her own offending, but of my offending, and uneasily watched their looks if I only moved.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Sometimes, as the road was cut through the pine woods that seemed in the darkness to be closing down upon us, great masses of greyness, which here and there bestrewed the trees, produced a peculiarly weird and solemn effect, which carried on the thoughts and grim fancies engendered earlier in the evening, when the falling sunset threw into strange relief the ghost-like clouds which amongst the Carpathians seem to wind ceaselessly through the valleys.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Ceaselessly active, head and hand, an intelligent machine, all that constituted him a man was devoted to furnishing that intelligence.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

His eyes, seeing nothing, moved ceaselessly about the room.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)