► alwaysall the time, at all times, or each time: Always lock your bicycle to something secure. Grandma had always told us to be careful.
► permanently at all times: The door is permanently locked.
► all the time/the whole time continuously and often: The baby cries all the time.
► constantly always or regularly: The fish are constantly moving in the tank.
► continuously formal without stopping or pausing: The tower clock has been working continuously for 270 years.
► consistently always doing something in the same way: If you use the soap consistently, your acne should improve.
► invariably formal always in the same way, without ever changing: The disease almost invariably ends in death.
► whenever each time that something happens. Whenever is used to join two parts of a sentence together: I visit my brother whenever I’m in New York.