Definition of incessant

"incessant" in the adjective sense

1. ceaseless, constant, incessant, never-ending, perpetual, unceasing, unremitting

uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing

"the ceaseless thunder of surf"

"in constant pain"

"night and day we live with the incessant noise of the city"

"the never-ending search for happiness"

"the perpetual struggle to maintain standards in a democracy"

"man's unceasing warfare with drought and isolation"

"unremitting demands of hunger"

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Quotations for incessant

But through the heart
Should Jealousy its venom once diffuse
'Tis then delightful misery no more
But agony unmixed, incessant gall
Corroding every thought, and blasting all
Love's paradise. [ Thomson ]

That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own. [ Swift ]

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labour and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. [ Burton ]

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment placing its victim naked on a bed of briars and bristles, thinly covered with rose-leaves, adorning his brow with a crown of gold, which burns into his brain; teasing, and fretting, and riddling him through and through with incessant discharges of hot shot from a masked battery; laying bare the most sensitive and shrinking nerves of his mind, and then blandly touching them with ice, or smilingly pricking them with needles. [ E. P. Whipple ]

incessant in Scrabble®

The word incessant is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters incessant:

INCESSANT
(108)
INCESSANT
(108)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (16 words)

ancient, ascents, ascites, canines, caseins, catenin, incants, incests, insects, nascent, secants, seitans, sestina, siennas, stances, stannic

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word incessant

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In incessant

INCESSANT
(108)
INCESSANT
(108)
NASCENT
(86 = 36 + 50)
INCANTS
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incessant in Words With Friends™

The word incessant is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 14

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters incessant:

INCESSANT
(162)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (16 words)

ancient, ascents, ascites, canines, caseins, catenin, incants, incests, insects, nascent, secants, seitans, sestina, siennas, stances, stannic

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word incessant

INCESSANT
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In incessant

INCESSANT
(162)
NASCENT
(107 = 72 + 35)
CANINES
(107 = 72 + 35)
STANNIC
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(101 = 66 + 35)
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INCESSANT
(96)
INCESSANT
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