Continual Definition

kən-tĭnyo͝o-əl
adjective
Recurring regularly or frequently.
Continual improvements in technology.
American Heritage
Happening over and over again; repeated often; going on in rapid succession.
Webster's New World
Not interrupted; steady.
A process that requires continual monitoring.
American Heritage
Going on uninterruptedly; continuous.
Webster's New World

(proscribed) Seemingly continuous; appearing to have no end or interruption.

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Origin of Continual

  • From Middle English continuel, from Old French continuel, from Latin continuus (“continuous”)

    From Wiktionary

Continual Sentence Examples

  • It would be continual torture.

  • In the continual struggles between Pisa and Genoa some of these princes took the side of the latter.

  • The front door was in continual motion with guests coming and going, amid laughter and boisterous conversation.

  • These monotonous writings, all in Dutch, flowed in a continual stream from 1524 (though none is extant before 1529) and amounted to over 200 in number.

  • For ten years, amidst continual civil war, Monagas was supreme.

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