foreveradverb
UK also for ever uk/fəˈre.vər/us/fɔːˈrev.ɚ/B1 for all time:
I like the house but I don't imagine I'll live there forever.
B2 for an extremely long time or too much time:
We'd better walk a bit quicker - it's going to take forever if we go at this pace.
very often:
She's forever telling him she's going to leave him but she never actually does.
More examples
- Each transaction at the foreign exchange counter seems to take forever.
- I know she's gone forever, but I just can't put her out of my mind.
- That look of pure grief would be imprinted on her mind forever.
- The awful sound of the crash will be stamped on her memory forever.
- The city has a timeless quality as if it had existed forever.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Continuous & permanent
- abiding
- ad infinitum
- around-the-clock
- be
- bounce
- ceaseless
- chronic
- fluidity
- immanent
- imperishable
- incessant
- indelible
- indissoluble
- nagging
- persistence
- persistent
- round-the-clock
- seamless
- smoothly
- trot
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Continually & repeatedly
foreveradjective [ before noun ]
existing or happening for all time in the future:
Today, more than 500,000 US children wait in foster care for a forever home.