UNINTERRUPTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does uninterrupted mean? 

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

1. having undisturbed continuity

2. continuing in time or space without interruption

  Familiarity information: UNINTERRUPTED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNINTERRUPTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having undisturbed continuity

Context example:

a convalescent needs uninterrupted sleep

Similar:

unbroken (marked by continuous or uninterrupted extension in space or time or sequence)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Continuing in time or space without interruption

Synonyms:

continuous; uninterrupted

Context example:

moving midweek holidays to the nearest Monday or Friday allows uninterrupted work weeks

Similar:

around-the-clock; day-and-night; nonstop; round-the-clock (at all times)

ceaseless; constant; incessant; never-ending; perpetual; unceasing; unremitting (uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing)

continual (having no interruptions)

dogging; persisting (relentless and indefatigable in pursuit or as if in pursuit)

endless (having the ends united so as to form a continuous whole)

free burning; sustained ((of an electric arc) continuous)

consecutive; straight (successive (without a break))

sustained (maintained at length without interruption or weakening)

Also:

unbroken (marked by continuous or uninterrupted extension in space or time or sequence)

Attribute:

continuity; persistence (the property of a continuous and connected period of time)

 Context examples 

So he closed his eyes and slept normally and comfortably for eight uninterrupted hours.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I desired that I might pass my life on that barren rock, wearily, it is true, but uninterrupted by any sudden shock of misery.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“It’s a shame, after working hard all day, that we cannot have an uninterrupted night’s sleep,” I complained, after supper.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Until tonight, I have had uninterrupted occasion to bless the day on which I did her great injustice.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She could tell nothing of Hartfield, in which Mrs. Weston had not a lively concern; and half an hour's uninterrupted communication of all those little matters on which the daily happiness of private life depends, was one of the first gratifications of each.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Tom's extreme impatience to be removed to Mansfield, and experience those comforts of home and family which had been little thought of in uninterrupted health, had probably induced his being conveyed thither too early, as a return of fever came on, and for a week he was in a more alarming state than ever.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

For all that, the two men put the greatest store by these excursions, counted them the chief jewel of each week, and not only set aside occasions of pleasure, but even resisted the calls of business, that they might enjoy them uninterrupted.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Everything was now in a regular train: theatre, actors, actresses, and dresses, were all getting forward; but though no other great impediments arose, Fanny found, before many days were past, that it was not all uninterrupted enjoyment to the party themselves, and that she had not to witness the continuance of such unanimity and delight as had been almost too much for her at first.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)