continuously

See also: continually

English

Etymology

From continuous +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kənˈtɪnjuəsli/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: con‧tin‧u‧ous‧ly

Adverb

continuously (not comparable)

1. Without pause.

   The river continuously flows to the sea, it will never pause to let us cross on dry land.

   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 99:

     In the year 1633, the Bridget Nuns, near Xanthus, behaved like sheep, jumping about and bleating continuously.

   • 2014 May 21, Andrew McGettigan, Shiv Malik, John Domokos, “Private sector and students profit at the college they call 'the ATM'”, in The Guardian‎:

     "We continuously strive to improve our processes and indeed have updated our systems accordingly. Ultimately, however, it is for the student to make a proper declaration to SLC [Student Loans Company]^[sic] to draw down funding," LSST said in a statement.

Usage notes

• See usage notes at continually.

Synonyms

• ceaselessly, incessantly, nonstop; see also Thesaurus:continuously

Derived terms

• continuously habitable zone
• continuously variable transmission
• semicontinuously

Translations

without pause

Arabic: باستمرار (bistimrār) Armenian: անդուլ (hy) (andul), անընդհատ (hy) (anəndhat), շարունակ (hy) (šarunak), անընդմեջ (hy) (anəndmeǰ) Assamese: একেলেথাৰিয়ে (ekeletharie) Catalan: contínuament (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 不斷 / 不断 (zh) (bùduàn), 一直 (zh) (yīzhí) Danish: kontinuerligt Dutch: continu (nl) Esperanto: senĉese Finnish: jatkuvasti (fi), tauotta (fi) French: continuellement (fr) Galician: continuamente (gl), continuadamente, arreo (gl) Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: ständig (de), ununterbrochen (de), andauernd (de), kontinuierlich (de) Greek: Ancient: διαμπερές (diamperés), συνεχῶς (sunekhôs) Hindi: लगातार (hi) (lagātār) Hungarian: folyamatosan (hu) Ingrian: yhtäperrää Italian: continuamente (it), costantemente (it) Japanese: 連続的に (ja) (れんぞくてきに, renzokuteki-ni) Kabuverdianu: afiu Korean: 계속(繼續) (ko) (gyesok), 연달아 (yeondara) Latin: perpetuē Norwegian: Bokmål: kontinuerlig (no) Nynorsk: kontinuerleg Ojibwe: aabda Polish: nieprzerwanie (pl), ciągle (pl) Portuguese: continuamente (pt) Romanian: încontinuu (ro), perpetuu (ro), continuu (ro), fără pauză, neîntrerupt (ro) Russian: непреры́вно (ru) (neprerývno), постоя́нно (ru) (postojánno) Scottish Gaelic: gu sìor Spanish: continuadamente, continuamente (es), de continuo (es) Swedish: kontinuerligt (sv) Tamil: தொடர்ந்து (toṭarntu) Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: durmadan (tr) Yiddish: כּסדר (keseyder)