Continual definition

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Recurring regularly or frequently.

Continual improvements in technology.

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The definition of continual is ongoing, or occurring frequently or without pause.

If someone is constantly making noise and barely ever taking a break, this is an example of continual noise.

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Not interrupted; steady.

A process that requires continual monitoring.

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Happening over and over again; repeated often; going on in rapid succession.
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Going on uninterruptedly; continuous.
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Recurring in steady, rapid succession.
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(proscribed) Seemingly continuous; appearing to have no end or interruption.
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(proscribed) Forming a continuous series.
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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.

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

  • 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.

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