ceaseless
Someone who is on a ceaseless quest for the world’s tastiest French fry will never stop searching until they find it, in all its greasy glory. Ceaseless is an adjective that means “never-ending” or “uninterrupted.”
The verb cease means “to stop,” so ceaseless refers to something that never stops. You might listen to the ceaseless sound of crashing waves at the beach, or you could say that the Internet is a ceaseless source of information. Ceaseless can also refer to things that only seem like they go on forever; it’s often used in the phrase “seemingly ceaseless.” During a blizzard you might complain about the ceaseless snow, even though the snow will eventually stop.
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uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing“the ceaseless thunder of surf”synonyms: constant, incessant, never-ending, perpetual, unabating, unceasing, unremitting
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Vocabulary lists containing ceaseless
Groundhog Day is all about the future — whether there will be six more weeks of winter. It has also come to mean the endless repetition of the same day. Learn these words to describe things that keep repeating.
Ray Bradbury once got stopped by the police for walking on a deserted street. In this story, he transforms his experience into science fiction. Here are links to our lists for short stories by the award-winning author: A Sound of Thunder, All Summer in a Day, August 2026, Marionettes, Inc., The Black Ferris, The Drummer Boy of Shiloh, The Flying Machine, The Pedestrian, The Veldt
The speaker of this poem observes a spider using its silk to explore its surroundings and then compares his soul to the title arachnid. Read the full text of the poem here.