INCESSANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does incessant mean? 

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

1. uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCESSANT (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:

incessancy; incessantness (the quality of something that continues without end or interruption)

 Context examples 

“Fanny,” cried Tom Bertram, from the other table, where the conference was eagerly carrying on, and the conversation incessant, “we want your services.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The anxious cares, the incessant attentions of Mrs. Weston, were not thrown away.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Think of the task you undertook—one of incessant fatigue, where fatigue kills even the strong, and you are weak.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The blackish soil is kept forever soft by the incessant drift of spray, and a bird would leave its tread upon it.

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

She felt incessant impulses to scream, to shriek, to collapse into the snow, to put her hands over her eyes and turn and run blindly away, into the forest, anywhere, away.

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

The thunder of the cannon was so loud and incessant, that I could not hear something I much desired to hear, until I made a great exertion and awoke.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He was stiff and lame from the incessant fighting.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

His incessant talking and shouting and bellowing of orders had been too much for Wolf Larsen, who had accordingly foisted the nuisance upon his hunters.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

In the whirl of our incessant activity, it has often been difficult for me, as the reader has probably observed, to round off my narratives, and to give those final details which the curious might expect.

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

The ship was talking, as sailors say, loudly, treading the innumerable ripples with an incessant weltering splash; and until I got my eye above the window-sill I could not comprehend why the watchmen had taken no alarm.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)