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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: | chronic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | incessant, never-ending |
| Synonyms: | abiding, ceaseless, confirmed, constant, continual, continuing, continuous, deep-rooted, deep-seated, enduring, ever-present, fixed, habitual, inborn, inbred, incurable, ineradicable, ingrained, inveterate, lasting, lifelong, lingering, long-lived, long-standing, obstinate, perennial, persistent, persisting, prolonged, protracted, recurrent, recurring, rooted, routine, settled, stubborn, sustained, tenacious, unabating, unmitigated, unyielding, usual |
| Notes: | acute is used for a sudden onset and short duration; chronic is for conditions that are slow to develop and of long duration chronic is contrasted with acute as chronic pain persists over a longer period of time than acute pain and is resistant to most medical treatments |
| Antonyms: | curable, eradicable, intermittent, occasional, temporary |
| Main Entry: | consecutive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in sequence |
| Synonyms: | after, chronological, connected, constant, continuing, continuous, ensuing, following, going on, in order, in turn, increasing, later, logical, numerical, one after another, progressive, running, sequent, sequential, serial, serialized, seriate, seriatim, succedent, succeeding, successional, successive, understandable, uninterrupted |
| Antonyms: | broken, discontinuous, infrequent, intermittent, interrupted, unconsecutive |
| Main Entry: | constant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | neverending |
| Synonyms: | abiding, ceaseless, chronic, continual, continuous, endless, enduring, eternal, everlasting, incessant, interminable, lasting, nonstop, perpetual, persistent, persisting, relentless, sustained, unending, uninterrupted, unrelenting, unremitting |
| Antonyms: | concluding, ending, interrupted, stopping, terminable, terminating |
| Main Entry: | continual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | constant, incessant |
| Synonyms: | aeonian, around-the-clock, ceaseless, connected, consecutive, continuous, dateless, endless, enduring, eternal, everlasting, frequent, interminable, oft-repeated, permanent, perpetual, persistent, persisting, recurrent, regular, relentless, repeated, repetitive, running, staying, steady, timeless, unbroken, unceasing, unchanging, unending, unfailing, unflagging, uninterrupted, unremitting, unvarying, unwaning |
| 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: | broken, ceasing, checked, halting, inconstant, infrequent, intermittent, interrupted, occasional, temporary |
| Main Entry: | direct |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | undeviating; uninterrupted |
| Synonyms: | beeline, continuous, even, horizontal, in bee line, in straight line, linear, nonstop, not crooked, point-blank, right, shortest, straight, straight ahead, straightaway, through, true, unbroken, unswerving |
| Antonyms: | changing, deviating, indirect, intermittent, interrupted, varying |
| Main Entry: | endless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not stopping, not finishing |
| Synonyms: | amaranthine, boundless, ceaseless, constant, continual, continuous, countless, deathless, enduring, eternal, everlasting, illimitable, immeasurable, immortal, incalculable, incessant, indeterminate, infinite, interminable, limitless, measureless, monotonous, multitudinous, never-ending, no end of, no end to, numberless, overlong, perpetual, self-perpetuating, unbounded, unbroken, undivided, undying, unending, unfathomable, uninterrupted, unlimited, unsurpassable, untold, without end |
| Antonyms: | bounded, completing, ending, finishing, limited, passing, stopping, terminable |
| Main Entry: | entire |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | complete, whole |
| Synonyms: | absolute, all, choate, consolidated, continuous, full, gross, intact, integral, integrated, outright, perfect, plenary, sound, thorough, total, unbroken, undamaged, undiminished, undivided, unified, unimpaired, uninjured, unmarked, unmarred, unmitigated, unreserved, unrestricted, untouched |
| Antonyms: | abridged, incomplete, limited, part |
| Main Entry: | eternal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without pause; endless |
| Synonyms: | abiding, ageless, always, amaranthine, boundless, ceaseless, constant, continual, continued, continuous, dateless, deathless, enduring, everlasting, forever, illimitable, immemorial, immortal, immutable, imperishable, incessant, indefinite, indestructible, infinite, interminable, lasting, never-ending, perdurable, perennial, permanent, perpetual, persistent, relentless, termless, timeless, unbroken, unceasing, undying, unending, unfading, uninterrupted, unremitting, without end |
| Antonyms: | brief, changeable, changing, ending, ephemeral, stopping, temporary, terminable, transient |
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