incessive
/ɪnˈsɛs.ɪv/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Fierce; cruel and aggressive.
adj
Continual or successive; unceasing.
adj
Insightful; deep and succinct; incisive.
adj
Example Sentences
- "In both species it is impossible for the eye to follow the incessive movements of the feet, and to compare them with those of other quadrupeds, but from their chrono-photographic images it is easy to see that, taking the order of the movements of the limbs as a standard, the lizards are trotting animals."
- "The primordial wants have been satisfied only by incessive toil, at least for most people."
- "It is true, the atmospheric regions, at first subnuvolar, soon became enubilated; and old Sol did not radiate his sudorific caloric so potently as on the hesternal day, but the roads had, in some places, become lutulent and somewhat clarty; presenting a great difficiliation to my incessive velocity, on account of the viscosity of the surface."
- "What strange lessons of preistly domination do we read in the institutions of Knights Templar, the preaching of Crusades against the Infidel, and those bitter, incessive dissensions between kings and popes!"
- "War, the institution, the incessive monster which devours whole peoples, the world has learned to hate."
- "Because of its incessive conflicts with warlords and the Japanese, the Nationalist Party had to adopt a Soviet-type model for its political bureacratic structure."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more incessive (comparative)
most incessive (superlative)