continuously
Without pause.
Adverb
- Without pause.
- The river continuously flows to the sea, it will never pause to let us cross on dry land.
- In the year 1633, the Bridget Nuns, near Xanthus, behaved like sheep, jumping about and bleating continuously. - 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 99:
- George C. Edler (1889-1987) of Bethesda, MD kept a handwritten diary continuously from 20 Sep 1909, a total of 78 years. - 1994, Peter Matthews, Norris McWhirter (editors), The Guiness Book of World Records, 1994, page...
Origin
Etymology tree English continuous Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English continuously From continuous + -ly.
Synonyms
ceaselessly incessantly nonstop consecutively constantly continently continually continuously endlessly eternally ever everlastingly extendedly infinitely never-endingly ongoingly perpetually persistently relentlessly steadily successively unbrokenly unceasingly unendingly
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Derived
continuously habitable zone continuously variable transmission semicontinuously