constantly

adverb

con·​stant·​ly ˈkän(t)-stənt-lē 

1

: without variation, deviation, or change : always

constantly on the alert

constantly improving

a temperature that's constantly maintained

… the fear of the sea was constantly in my mind, battling with the fear of my companions.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

2

: with regular occurrence : incessantly

constantly complaining

After all, Val doesn't let him get a lick of rest and is constantly bugging him to play with her.

—Ryan D. Wilson

All my traveling life, 40 years of peregrinating Africa, Asia, South America and Oceania, I have thought constantly of home—and especially of the America I had never seen.

—Paul Theroux

Synonyms of constantly

• often
• repeatedly
• frequently
• continually

Examples of constantly in a Sentence

a crackpot who constantly wrote angry letters to the local newspaper

stay constantly on guard until the danger of forest fire is past

Recent Examples on the Web

The sky is constantly overcast, streaked with red lightning, while the setting is forever frozen in the year 1983, on the day Eleven first opened the wormhole. —Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Dec. 2025

So don’t be constantly absorbed in your phone, for one, which can make others feel unimportant. —Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 25 Dec. 2025

Stellar winds constantly reshape its structure. —Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 25 Dec. 2025

On the flip side, constantly thinking that Haaland can attack the space behind gives him an advantage when dropping deeper. —Ahmed Walid, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1651, in the meaning defined at sense 1