unceasingly

American

[uhn-see-sing-lee] / ʌnˈsi sɪŋ li /

adverb

without stopping; continuously.

As principal, she has worked unceasingly to instill a sense of excellence in students, faculty, and staff.

Etymology

Origin of unceasingly

unceasing ( def. ) + -ly

Explanation

When you do something unceasingly, you do it without stopping. Your dog might bark unceasingly every time you leave the house, keeping it up until you come home again. The adverb unceasingly literally means "without ceasing," or "without stopping." To do something unceasingly also implies that you're pretty determined and focused as well. You might, for example, devote your life to working unceasingly to end child poverty and hunger. Both unceasingly and cease, or "stop," have a Latin root word, cessare, "go slow, be idle, leave off, or give over."

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Example Sentences

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Here, progressiveness isn’t derived from depicting queer people as singularly, unceasingly good or bad.

From Salon • Mar. 1, 2026

The mayor described the Mac Gabhann family as "unceasingly brave" and said the six-year-old had "moved mountains".

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2023

His descriptions of her are so unceasingly laudatory that she appears superhuman.

From Washington Post • Nov. 9, 2022

I must toil unceasingly, chopping wood and pulling weeds, to repay my racoon master.

From Slate • Apr. 7, 2020

The embryo is hungry; day in, day out, the blood-surrogate pump unceasingly turns its eight hundred revolutions a minute.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

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