| ADJECTIVE | all | continual | occurring without interruption |
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| all | continual | 'continual'(meaning / meaning seemingly uninterrupted) is often used interchangeably with 'continuous'(meaning / meaning without interruption) |
| Sounds | kahntih'nyuwahl | |
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| Rhymes | abdominal ... zoological: 2115 rhymes with ahl... | |
| Meaning | Occurring without interruption; chiefly restricted to what recurs regularly or frequently in a prolonged and closely spaced series. | |
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| Example | "the continual banging of the shutters" | |
| Narrower | insistent, repetitive | Repetitive and persistent |
| perennial, recurrent, repeated | recurring again and again | |
| persistent, relentless, unrelenting | never / never-ceasing | |
| recurring, revenant | Coming back | |
| running | continually repeated over a period of time | |
| Opposite | sporadic | recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances |
| Spanish | continuo | |
| Catalan | continu | |
| Adverbs | continually | seemingly without interruption |
| Meaning | 'continual'(meaning / meaning seemingly uninterrupted) is often used interchangeably with 'continuous'(meaning / meaning without interruption). | |
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| Broader | continuous, uninterrupted | Continuing in time or space without interruption |
| Spanish | constante, continuo | |
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