forever
Meanings
Plural: forevers
Adverb
- for a limitless time; ; - P.P.Bliss
- "no one can live forever"
- for a very long or seemingly endless time
- "she took forever to write the paper"
- "we had to wait forever and a day"
- without interruption
Adv
- For all time, for all eternity; for a lifetime; for an infinite amount of time.
- For a very long time, a seeming eternity.
- Constantly or frequently.
Noun
- An extremely long time.
- A mythical time in the future that will never come.
Adj
- Permanent, lasting; constant, perpetual.
Origin / Etymology
Univerbation of for ever, from Middle English for ever, for evere. By surface analysis, for + ever. First attested in the late 14c., and first attested in the late 17c. as one word. Noun first attested in 1858.
Synonyms
5ever, ad infinitum, all the time, always, aye, constantly, continually, endlessly, eternally, ever, ever after, everlastingly, evermore, fivever, for ever and ever, for ever more, for evermore, for good, forever, forever and a day, forevermore, in perpetuity, in saecula saeculorum, incessantly, lastingly, neverendingly, permanently, perpetually, sempiternally, until hell freezes over, until Kingdom come
Scrabble Score: 13
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