nonstop

[non-stop, non-stop]

adjective

1. being without a single stop en route.

   a nonstop bus; a nonstop flight from New York to Paris.

2. happening, done, or held without a stop or pause or without offering relief or respite.

   The ambassador faced a nonstop schedule of meetings and interviews during her visit.

adverb

1. without a single stop en route.

2. Informal.,  without a pause or interruption or without respite; continually.

   My back ached nonstop for three days.

noun

1. a long-distance airline flight that makes no stops between the starting point and the destination.

nonstop

/ ˈnɒnˈstɒp /

adjective

1. done without pause or interruption

   a nonstop flight

Word History and Origins

Origin of nonstop¹

First recorded in 1900–05; non- + stop

Example Sentences

But in those cases, he said utilities typically work nonstop to restore connectivity and often provide short-term backup power.

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Madame Babushkinov was ill equipped to console the child, for she was a bundle of nerves herself and chattered nonstop.

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She paused for breath, for she had been talking nonstop.

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“Hizzoner guffawed nonstop for a minute and a half after that one. Say, what did he mean by it? Were they in the circus?”

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The glass mending went on nonstop, twelve months a year, for twenty years.

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Related Words

• ceaseless 
• constant 
• endless 
• incessant 
• interminable 
• relentless 
• round-the-clock 
• steady 
• unbroken 
• unending 
• uninterrupted