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What is the adjective for continuing?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb continue which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

continuous
  1. Without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening time.
  2. Without intervening space; continued; protracted; extended.
  3. (botany) Not deviating or varying from uniformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.
  4. (function) Such that, for every x in the domain, for each small open interval D about f(x), there's an interval containing x whose image is in D.
  5. (mathematics) Such that each open set in the target space has an open preimage (in the domain space, with respect to the given function).
  6. (grammar) Expressing an ongoing action or state.
  7. Synonyms:
      8. ceaseless, continuing, uninterrupted, constant, continual, continued, incessant, unceasing, perpetual, sustained, unremitting, permanent, persistent, relentless, running, unabating, unrelenting, unrelieved, consecutive, endless, interminable, nonstop, ongoing, prolonged, steady, unending, eternal, everlasting, regular, repeated, stable, unfaltering, non-stop, always-on, never-ending, day and night, no end of, no end to, on a treadmill, round-the-clock, with no let-up, for ever and ever, without a break, without end, without respite, without surcease, steady-going, unbroken, lasting, enduring … more
  8. Examples:
      9. “She had to endure a continuous barrage of criticism following her controversial comments.”
      “Proceed by foot on the continuous trail for several miles until you reach the lake.”
      “One alternative to the traditional metal or colored plastic roof vents is to use a continuous ridge vent.”
continual
  1. Recurring in steady, rapid succession.
  2. (proscribed) Seemingly continuous; appearing to have no end or interruption.
  3. (proscribed) Forming a continuous series.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. continuous, constant, uninterrupted, perpetual, unceasing, incessant, ceaseless, unbroken, unremitting, steady, endless, nonstop, continuing, running, unending, relentless, sustained, interminable, continued, unrelenting, ongoing, unabating, unrelieved, eternal, everlasting, permanent, consecutive, unflagging, chronic, timeless, enduring, unfailing, unvarying, persisting, unchanging, unwaning, dateless, staying, aeonian, perennial, never-ending, round-the-clock, around-the-clock, persistent, non-stop, repeated, unabated, recurrent, unfaltering, regular … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “My ultimate personal goal is that of continual happiness and contentment.”
      “We discovered that an almost infinite number of stalactites had been formed by the almost continual dripping of the water.”
      “The story of the following months was one of continual doubt by Haig on whether the attacks should continue.”
continuate
  1. (obsolete) Continuous; uninterrupted; continued without break or interruption.
  2. (obsolete) Chronic; long-lasting; long-continued.
  3. Examples:
      4. “We are of Him and in Him, even as though our very flesh and bones should be made continuate with his.”
continued
  1. (dated) Prolonged; unstopped.
  2. Uninterrupted.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. continuous, continual, continuing, endless, perpetual, constant, enduring, eternal, everlasting, frequent, incessant, lasting, regular, steady, sustained, unflagging, unwaning, unwavering, ageless, ceaseless, dogged, habitual, nonstop, ongoing, perennial, permanent, prolonged, recurring, repeated, running, tireless, unabated, undying, unfailing, unremitting, abiding, chronic, indefatigable, interminable, persistent, persisting, recurrent, relentless, timeless, unabating, unceasing, unending, unfaltering, untiring, unvarying … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “They would assure us of their continued support.”
continuumlike
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a continuum.
continuable
  1. Able to be continued.
  2. Examples:
      3. “If its argument is a condition, SIGNAL does not ensure that the condition indicates a continuable exception.”
      “The exception event in the example above has an exception number of 1 and thus is continuable.”
      “The program has a function named error that takes different arguments and can signal either a fatal or a continuable error.”
continuall
  1. Obsolete spelling of continual
  2. Examples:
      3. “By the continuall sorting and telling of this coyne, then did enter of the ewre of that brasse and copper under the nails of her fingers.”
      “And although we feele it not, it is not to bee doubted, if a continuall ague may in the end suppresse our mind, a tertian will also breed some alteration in it.”
contd
  1. Abbreviation of continued.
continuing
  1. present participle of continue
  2. Synonyms:
      3. keeping, persevering, pursuing, carrying on with, going on with, keeping on with, proceeding with, persisting in, persisting with, pressing on with, persevering in, persevering with, keeping up, keeping at, pushing on with, not giving up, staying with, sticking at, sticking with, soldiering on with, sticking to your guns, carrying forward, getting on with, keeping on, pressing on, pushing on, sticking to, maintaining, sustaining, preserving, prolonging, renewing, upholding, extending, protracting, perpetuating, lengthening, projecting, retaining, keeping alive, keeping going, holding, prevailing, biding, holding on, holding up, perduring … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “We advocate a continuing process of constitutional discussion.”
      “No other country has the military and economic wherewithal to exist in a continuing cycle of disinformation.”
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