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

Such particles constantly trickle down onto Earth's surface as a result of the battering our planet experiences due to cosmic rays that arrive from the most distant parts of the galaxy. —Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 4 Dec. 2025

And the thought is in the back of my mind constantly now, that there could be someone in the crowd. —Steve Large, CBS News, 3 Dec. 2025

Mobile phones are constantly scanning for nearby cell towers so that when someone wants to place a call or send a text, their phone is already connected to the closest tower. —Emilee Rader, The Conversation, 3 Dec. 2025

In between the stomach-churning physical violence, players are also constantly dipping into hallucinations and time displacement that’s wildly disorienting. —Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 3 Dec. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1651, in the meaning defined at sense 1