UNCEASING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unceasing mean? 

• UNCEASING (adjective)
  The adjective UNCEASING has 2 senses:

1. continuing forever or indefinitely

2. uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing

  Familiarity information: UNCEASING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNCEASING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Continuing forever or indefinitely

Synonyms:

aeonian; ageless; eonian; eternal; everlasting; perpetual; unceasing; unending

Context example:

the unending bliss of heaven

Similar:

lasting; permanent (continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place)

Sense 2

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)

 Context examples 

“And not one of you to get a knife!” was his unceasing lament.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

At these moments I often endeavoured to put an end to the existence I loathed, and it required unceasing attendance and vigilance to restrain me from committing some dreadful act of violence.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The thought gnawed in his brain, an unceasing torment, while he smiled and succeeded in being tolerant.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Only by the steady regard of his eyes did he express his love, and by the unceasing following with his eyes of his god's every movement.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The necessity of concealing from her mother and Marianne, what had been entrusted in confidence to herself, though it obliged her to unceasing exertion, was no aggravation of Elinor's distress.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Your man-eater, as they of India call the tiger who has once tasted blood of the human, care no more for the other prey, but prowl unceasing till he get him.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

In this unceasing recurrence of doubts and inquiries, on any one article of which her mind was incapable of more than momentary repose, the hours passed away, and her journey advanced much faster than she looked for.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

She could not, though only eighteen, suppose Mr. Crawford's attachment would hold out for ever; she could not but imagine that steady, unceasing discouragement from herself would put an end to it in time.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

From the distant camp of Dax, too, and from Blaye, Bourge, Libourne, St. Emilion, Castillon, St. Macaire, Cardillac, Ryons, and all the cluster of flourishing towns which look upon Bordeaux as their mother, there thronged an unceasing stream of horsemen and of footmen, all converging upon the great city.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He studied it with unceasing vigilance.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)