incessant

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
14
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ɪnˈsɛs.ənt/

Definition of incessant

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Without pause or stop; not ending, especially to the point of annoyance.
    “The dog's incessant barking kept the girl awake all night.”
    “[…] incessant interferings and bickerings, in every country, between the secular powers and the ecclesiastical.”
    “The face of Nature may be compared to a yielding surface, with ten thousand sharp wedges packed close together and driven inwards by incessant blows, sometimes one wedge being struck, and then another with greater force.”

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Etymology

From Late Middle English incessaunte, from Late Latin incessāns, incessantem, from Latin in- + cessāns.

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