Dictionary Definition
continual adj
1 seemingly without interruption; chiefly
restricted to what recurs regularly or frequently in a prolonged
and closely spaced series; "the continual banging of the shutters"
[ant: sporadic]
2 `continual' (meaning seemingly uninterrupted)
is often used interchangeably with `continuous' (meaning without
interruption)
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Adjective
- Seemingly continuous; appearing to have no end or interruption.
- recurring in steady, rapid succession
- forming a continuous series
Translations
- Russian: непрерывный (n'epr'erývnyj)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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
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