incessant
adj/ɪnˈsɛs.ənt/
Etymology From Late Middle English incessaunte, from Late Latin incessāns, incessantem, from Latin in- + cessāns.
1
Without pause or stop; not ending, especially to the point of annoyance.
- The dog's incessant barking kept the girl awake all night.
- […] incessant interferings and bickerings, in every country, between the secular powers and the ecclesiastical.1807, George Campbell, Lectures on Ecclesiastical History, page 274:
1 more example
- The face of Nature may be compared to a yielding surface, with ten thousand sharp wedges packed close together and driven inwards by incessant blows, sometimes one wedge being struck, and then another with greater force.1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species:
- Derived terms
- incessantly, incessantness