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English
Etymology
From continuous + -ly.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kənˈtɪnjuəsli/
- Hyphenation: con‧tin‧u‧ous‧ly
Adverb
continuously (not comparable)
- Without pause.
The river continuously flows to the sea, it will never pause to let us cross on dry land. She drove continuously for two hours.
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.
1994, Peter Matthews, Norris McWhirter (editors), The Guiness Book of World Records, 1994, page 400:George C. Edler (1889-1987) of Bethesda, MD kept a handwritten diary continuously from 20 Sep 1909, a total of 78 years.
2014 May 21, Andrew McGettigan, Shiv Malik, John Domokos, “Private sector and students profit at the college they call 'the ATM'”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 October 2026:"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.
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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 Greek: διαμπερές (diamperés), συνεχῶς (sunekhôs)
- Hindi: लगातार (hi) (lagātār), निरंतर (hi) (nirantar), मुसलसल (musalsal)
- Hungarian: folyamatosan (hu), folytonosan (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
- Kazakh: ұдайы (udayı), үзбей (üzbey)
- 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)
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