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| Main Entry: | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | extended |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lengthened |
| Synonyms: | continued, drawn-out, elongate, elongated, enlarged, lengthy, long, prolonged, protracted, spread, spread out, stretched out, unfolded, unfurled, very long |
| Antonyms: | abbreviated, abridged, compressed, condensed, contracted, curtailed, cut, lessened, reduced, shortened |
| Main Entry: | long |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extended in space or time |
| Synonyms: | continued, deep, distant, drawn out, elongate, elongated, enduring, enlarged, expanded, extensive, far-off, far-reaching, faraway, gangling, great, high, lanky, lasting, lengthened, lengthy, lingering, lofty, longish, outstretched, prolonged, protracted, rangy, remote, running, spread out, spun out, stretch, stretched, stretching, stringy, sustained, tall, towering |
| Antonyms: | abbreviated, abridged, short |
| Main Entry: | perpetual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | continual, lasting |
| Synonyms: | abiding, ceaseless, constant, continued, continuous, endless, enduring, eternal, everlasting, going on, immortal, imperishable, incessant, infinite, interminable, intermittent, never-ceasing, never-ending, perdurable, perennial, permanent, persistent, recurrent, recurring, reoccurring, repeated, repeating, repetitious, returning, sempiternal, unceasing, unchanging, undying, unending, unfailing, uninterrupted, unremitting, without end |
| Antonyms: | brief, ephemeral, fleeting, momentary, temporary, transient |
| Main Entry: | recurrent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | repeating |
| Synonyms: | alternate, chain, continued, cyclical, frequent, habitual, intermittent, isochronal, isochronous, periodic, periodical, recurring, regular, reoccurring, repeated, repetitive, rolling |
| Antonyms: | halted, infrequent, permanent, prevented, stopped |
| Main Entry: | serial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in continuing order |
| Synonyms: | consecutive, continual, continued, continuing, ensuing, following, going on, sequent, sequential, succedent, succeeding, successional, successive |
| Antonyms: | disordered |
| Main Entry: | solid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | continuous, complete |
| Synonyms: | agreed, brick wall, consecutive, consentient, continued, firm, like a rock, regular, set in stone, stable, steady, unalloyed, unanimous, unbroken, undivided, uninterrupted, united, unmixed |
| Antonyms: | broken, divided, incomplete, incontinuous, intermittent |
| Main Entry: | timeless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | eternal |
| Synonyms: | abiding, ageless, always, amaranthine, constant, continual, continued, dateless, deathless, endless, enduring, everlasting, forever, illimitable, immemorial, immortal, indefinite, infinite, lasting, never-ending, perennial, permanent, perpetual, persistent, undying, unending, without end |
| Main Entry: | undivided |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | whole |
| Synonyms: | absorbed, circumspect, collective, combined, complete, concentrated, concerted, continued, deliberate, detailed, diligent, engrossed, entire, exclusive, fast, fixed, full, intense, intent, joined, lock stock and barrel, minute, rigid, scrupulous, single, solid, steady, thorough, unanimous, unbroken, uncut, undistracted, unflagging, united, unswerving, vigilant, wholehearted |
| Antonyms: | divided, partial, separate |
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