| Main Entry: |
continuous |
| Part of Speech: |
adjective |
| Definition: |
constant, unending |
Synonyms: |
connected,
consecutive, continued, day and night, endless, everlasting,
extended, for ever and ever, interminable, looped, no end of, no end to, on a treadmill, perpetual,
prolonged,
regular,
repeated,
stable,
steady,
timeless, unbroken, unceasing, undivided, unfaltering, uninterrupted
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| Notes: |
continually means 'repeatedly, with breaks in between' and continuously means 'without interruption, in an unbroken stream'; continual typically refers to time while continuous can refer to space as well as time |
Antonyms: |
ceasing, completed, discontinuous, ending, finished, halting, intermittent, interrupted, sporadic, stopping
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