CONSTANTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does constantly mean? 

• CONSTANTLY (adverb)
  The adverb CONSTANTLY has 2 senses:

1. without variation or change, in every case

2. without interruption

  Familiarity information: CONSTANTLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONSTANTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without variation or change, in every case

Synonyms:

always; constantly; invariably

Context example:

he always arrives on time

Pertainym:

constant (unvarying in nature)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Without interruption

Synonyms:

always; constantly; forever; incessantly; perpetually

Context example:

the world is constantly changing

Pertainym:

constant (uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing)

 Context examples 

We have now had so many changes and find the same thing so constantly that we are encouraged to think that the journey will be an easy one.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Almost the first remarkable thing I observed in Miss Murdstone was, her being constantly haunted by a suspicion that the servants had a man secreted somewhere on the premises.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

On my remarking that I was constantly in the habit of doing the same thing you expressed incredulity.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The figures have been constantly improving over the last ten years, from -0.99% in 1998-1999 to -0.42% in 2001-2002, -0.17% in 2006-2007, -0.11% in 2007-2008 and -0.04% in 2008-2009.

(Is the Global Crisis Triggering Basic Instincts?, BOGDAN FLORIN PAUL)

He talks of her constantly, writes poetry, and moons about in a most suspicious manner.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The simulations indicate spicules could play a big role in energizing the sun’s atmosphere, by constantly forcing plasma out and generating so many Alfvén waves across the sun’s entire surface.

(Scientists Uncover Origins of the Sun’s Swirling Spicules, NASA)

He set sail and bore away into the west-north-west, two hunters constantly at the mastheads and sweeping the sea with glasses, himself pacing the deck like an angry lion.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

On Earth, these processes occur constantly as the planet's mantle causes pieces of crust, called plates, to shift against one another.

(Study Finds New Wrinkles on Earth's Moon, NASA)

In contrast, Earth's surface is quivering constantly from seismic noise created by oceans and weather.

(NASA's InSight Detects First Likely 'Quake' on Mars, NASA)

Our eyes constantly send bits of information about the world around us to our brains where the information is assembled into objects we recognize.

(Eye cells may use math to detect motion, NIH)