forever
Part of speech: adv
noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: duration
time
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.
Inflected forms:
form: for ever
pos: adv
tags: alternative
UK
form: fore'er
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: for e'er
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: Forever
pos: adv
tags: alternative
noun
poetic
form: forevers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: for ever
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
form: fore'er
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: for e'er
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Forever
pos: noun
tags: alternative
noun
poetic
form: for ever
pos: adj
tags: alternative
UK
form: fore'er
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: for e'er
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Forever
pos: adj
tags: alternative
noun
poetic
Senses:
gloss: For all time, for all eternity; for a lifetime; for an infinite amount of time.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: I shall love you forever.
Secondly, When a body is once in motion it will continue to move forever, unless something stops it. When a ball is struck on the surface of the earth, the friction of the earth and the resistance of the air soon stop its motion.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — for ever.
gloss: For a very long time, a seeming eternity.
pos: adv
tags: colloquial
excessive
not-comparable
examples: We had to wait forever to get inside.
That was forever ago.
She and Serena had been friends forever. Or nearly forever: forty-two years, beginning with Miss Kimmel's first grade.
Anything in the world of transport takes forever to do, and costs far too much.
gloss: Constantly or frequently.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: You are forever nagging me.
Early in his boyhood he had learned to form ropes by twisting and tying long grasses together, and with these he was forever tripping Tublat or attempting to hang him from some overhanging branch.
gloss: An extremely long time.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
examples: I haven't seen him in forever!
It took me forever to make up my mind.
Don't spend forever on the phone!
She should've been here five forevers ago!
It's been a fortnight of forevers since the Braves could count on a late-game comeback.
In the airport, holiday lovers kiss, mouth forevers, the usual argot betrays you. Desire makes love dull.
gloss: A mythical time in the future that will never come.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
poetic
uncountable
examples: Sure, I'd be happy to meet with you on the 12th of forever.
gloss: Permanent, lasting; constant, perpetual.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: It'd be a peaceful life / With a forever wife / And a kid someday
We'll take care of you and help you find a Forever Home.
He is a forever friend.
Danner posits that the United States has been trapped in a "forever war" by 9/11, and describes a nation that has been altered in fundamental ways by President Bush's having declared a war of choice and without an exit plan, […]
Synonyms: 5ever
ad infinitum
all the time
always
aye
continually
endlessly
eternally
ever
ever after
evermore
fivever
for good
forever
forevermore
for evermore
for ever and ever
for ever more
incessantly
in perpetuity
in saecula saeculorum
interminably
lastingly
never-endingly
permanently
perpetually
sempiternally
unendingly
until hell freezes over
until Kingdom come
Antonyms: moment
never
nevermore
Related words: ever
everlasting
evermore
every
everyday
never
nevermore
whatever
whenever
whoever
continuously
endlessness
eternal
eternity
Derived words: best friend forever
diamonds are forever
fivever
forever after
forever alone
forever and a day
forever and ay
forever and ever
forever and forever
forever chemical
forever home
foreverhood
forever house
Forever Knightie
foreverness
forever stamp
liveforever
live-for-ever
live-forever
speak now or forever hold your peace
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