Ceaselessly
[SEES-ləs-lee]
Part of speech: adverb
Origin: Latin, late 16th century
1.
Continuously and without end.
Examples of Ceaselessly in a sentence
"She worked ceaselessly to improve her skills as a chef."
"If you don't fix that screen door, the banging will continue ceaselessly."
About Ceaselessly
You might be familiar with the verb "cease," meaning "bring to an end." When you add "-less," it turns into an adjective meaning "without end.” The further addition of "-ly" gives us the adverb "ceaselessly." This means something is done without end.
Did you Know?
F. Scott Fitzgerald used the word "ceaselessly" in the last line of "The Great Gatsby": "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." Nick used the metaphor to depict Gatsby's futile struggle to revive his love with Daisy and, on a grander scale, the human struggle to escape the clutches of our own history.
