About The Word Continual
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Continual
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What's The Definition Of Continual?
[adj] seemingly without interruption; chiefly restricted to what recurs regularly or frequently in a prolonged and closely spaced series; "the continual banging of the shutters"
[adj] `continual' (meaning seemingly uninterrupted) is often used interchangeably with `continuous' (meaning without interruption) Synonyms | Synonyms for Continual: constant | continuous | endless | everlasting | incessant | insistent | perennial | perpetual | persistent | recurrent | relentless | repeated | repetitive | running(a) | uninterrupted | unrelenting Related Terms | Find terms related to Continual: ageless | articulated | catenated | ceaseless | chattering | coeternal | concatenated | connected | constant | continued | continuing | continuous | cyclical | dateless | direct | endless | eternal | eterne | ever-being | ever-durable | ever-during | everlasting | everliving | featureless | gapless | immediate | immemorial | incessant | indestructible | infinite | interminable | joined | jointless | linked | machine gun | monotonous | never-ceasing | never-ending | nonstop | nonterminating | nonterminous | olamic | oscillating | perdurable | perennial | periodic | permanent | perpetual | persistent | pulsating | rapid | recurrent | regular | repeated | repetitive | round-the-clock | running | seamless | sempiternal | serried | smooth | stable | staccato | steady | straight | stuttering | sustained | timeless | twenty-four-hour | unbroken | unceasing | unchanging | undifferentiated | unending | uniform | unintermitted | unintermittent | unintermitting | uninterrupted | unrelieved | unremitting | unstopped | unvarying | vibrating | without end See Also | Continual In Webster's Dictionary \Con*tin"u*al\, a. [OE. continuel, F. continuel. See
{Continue}.]
1. Proceeding without interruption or cesstaion; continuous;
unceasing; lasting; abiding.
He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.
--Prov. xv.
15.
2. Occuring in steady and rapid succession; very frequent;
often repeated.
The eye is deligh by a continental succession of
small landscapes. --W. Irwing.
{Continual proportionals} (Math.), quantities in continued
proportion. --Brande & C.
Syn: Constant; prepetual; incessant; unceasing;
uninterrupted; unintermitted; continuous. See
{Constant}, and {Continuous}.
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