English adjective: continual |
1. | continual occurring without interruption; chiefly restricted to what recurs regularly or frequently in a prolonged and closely spaced series |
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| Samples | The continual banging of the shutters.
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| Similar | insistent, perennial, persistent, recurrent, recurring, relentless, repeated, repetitive, revenant, running, unrelenting |
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| Antonyms | sporadic |
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2. | continual `continual' (meaning seemingly uninterrupted) is often used interchangeably with `continuous' (meaning without interruption) |
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| Similar | continuous, uninterrupted |
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| Antonyms | noncontinuous, discontinuous |
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