CONTINUALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does continually mean? 

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

1. seemingly without interruption

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONTINUALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Seemingly without interruption

Context example:

complained continually that there wasn't enough money

Pertainym:

continual (recurring regularly or frequently in a prolonged and closely spaced series)

 Context examples 

Also, he did not know where to begin, and continually suffered from lack of preparation.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The servants say they never saw anybody so much in love as he was: he was after her continually.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The most wonderful things have happened and are continually happening to us.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He's away all day, and at night when I want to see him, he is continually going over to the Scotts'.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Small waves, with spiteful foaming crests, continually broke over me and into my mouth, sending me off into more strangling paroxysms.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He pushed his face forward as he spoke and his lips and eyelids were continually twitching like a man with St. Vitus’s dance.

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

She sneezed continually, and her stub of a tail was doing its best toward lashing about by giving quick, violent jerks.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

My passion takes away my appetite, and makes me wear my newest silk neckerchief continually.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The animal blinked continually in the sunshine.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Her light grey eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every little want and forestalling it if possible.

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