Definition: incessant

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

incessant
     adj 1: occurring so frequently as to seem ceaseless or
            uninterrupted; "a child's incessant questions"; "your
            perpetual (or continual) complaints" [syn: perpetual,
             endless]
     2: uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing; "the
        ceaseless thunder of surf"; "in constant pain"; "night and
        day we live with the incessant noise of the city"; "the
        never-ending search for happiness"; "the perpetual
        struggle to maintain standards in a democracy"; "man's
        unceasing warfare with drought and isolation";
        "unremitting demands of hunger" [syn: ceaseless, constant,
         never-ending, perpetual, unceasing, unremitting]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Incessant \In*ces"sant\, a. [L. incessans, -antis; pref. in- not
   + cessare to cease: cf. F. incessant. See Cease.]
   Continuing or following without interruption; unceasing;
   unitermitted; uninterrupted; continual; as, incessant
   clamors; incessant pain, etc.

         Against the castle gate, . . . Which with incessant
         force and endless hate, They batter'd day and night and
         entrance did await.                      --Spenser.

   Syn: Unceasing; uninterrupted; unintermitted; unremitting;
        ceaseless; continual; constant; perpetual.