forever
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 infinite or indefinite period of time.
- An extremely long time.
- A mythical time in the future that will never come.
Adj
- Permanent, lasting; constant, perpetual.
Examples
- Don't spend forever on the phone!
- I haven't seen him in forever!
- I shall love you forever.
- It took me forever to make up my mind.
- She should've been here five forevers ago!
- Some opponents seem to take FOREVER to make a single move.
- Sure, I'd be happy to meet with you on the 12th of forever.
- That was forever ago.
- We had to wait forever to get inside.
- You are forever nagging me.
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
always, constantly, eternally, everlastingly, evermore, forever and a day, incessantly, perpetually, 5ever, ad infinitum, all the time, aye, continually, endlessly, ever, ever after, fivever, for ever and ever, for ever more, for evermore, for good, forever, forevermore, in perpetuity, in saecula saeculorum, lastingly, neverendingly, permanently, sempiternally, until Kingdom come, until hell freezes over
Scrabble Score: 13
forever: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordforever: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
forever: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary