incessantly
/ɪnˈsɛs.ənt.li/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.91 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a manner without pause or stop, especially to the point of annoyance; not ceasing.
Example Sentences
- "He jabbered incessantly and annoyed everyone."
- "We see the eye subdued, the practised smile, / The word well weighed before it pass the lip, / And know not of the misery within: / Yet there it works incessantly, and fears / The time to come; for time is terrible, / Avenging, and betraying."
- "There were the tawny rocks, like lions couchant, defying the ocean, whose waves incessantly dashed against and scoured them with vast quantities of gravel."
- ""You are old, Father William," the young man said, / "And your hair has become very white; / And yet you incessantly stand on your head— / Do you think, at your age, it is right?""
- "But just there a small hairy terrier exploded out at the gate, like a floor-mop impelled by some sort of internal combustion, which sent him off into a frenzy of yapping, incessantly jerked backwards by the explosive force of his own detonations."
Etymology
Etymology tree English incessant Middle English -ly English -ly English incessantly From incessant + -ly.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɪnˈsɛs.ənt.li/