incessant

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

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈsɛs.ənt/

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• Hyphenation: in‧ces‧sant
• Rhymes: -ɛsənt

incessant (comparative more incessant, superlative most incessant)

1. Without pause or stop; not ending, especially to the point of annoyance.

   Synonyms: unremitting, continuous, unceasing

   The dog's incessant barking kept the girl awake all night.

   • 1807, George Campbell, Lectures on Ecclesiastical History, page 274:

     […] incessant interferings and bickerings, in every country, between the secular powers and the ecclesiastical.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:incessant.

• incessantly

• anticness, cantiness, instances, tenascins

From in- +‎ cessant.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [in.səˈsan]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [in.səˈsant]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [in.seˈsant]

incessant m or f (masculine and feminine plural incessants)

1. incessant

• incessantment

• cessar

• “incessant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “incessant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “incessant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “incessant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From in- +‎ cessant ^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.sɛ.sɑ̃/ ~ /ɛ̃.se.sɑ̃/

incessant (feminine incessante, masculine plural incessants, feminine plural incessantes)

1. incessant

• incessamment

• instances

incessant

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of incessō