ceaseless
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- ceaselessly adverb
- ceaselessness noun
Etymology
Origin of ceaseless
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
That fumbling page had unnerved me, just as much as the ceaseless tattering of branches and the gusting winds that had howled in my ears as I’d trudged across the city that night.
From Literature
“Frankenstein” is largely about the journey to self-actualization and the destruction left in the wake of this ceaseless human pursuit.
From Salon
“I look around and can see it in so many other women, passed down from a time beyond history, this wind that is dark and ceaseless and raging within,” Groff writes.
From Los Angeles Times
“An end at last to that girl’s ceaseless chatter.”
From Literature
This was not the smell of the burning that ran a city, the burning of a ceaseless engine kept running by backbreaking work, an engine unlike anything else in the world.
From Literature
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
