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Ceaseless vs Protracted - What's the difference?

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Ceaseless is a related term of protracted.


As adjectives the difference between ceaseless and protracted

is that ceaseless is without an end while protracted is lasting for a long time or longer than expected or usual.

As a verb protracted is

(protract).

ceaseless

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Without an end.
  • Without stop or pause, incessant.
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    • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.}}

    protracted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (protract)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Lasting for a long time or longer than expected or usual.
    • a protracted and bitter dispute