Forever

Adverb

 * 1)  for all time, for all eternity; for an infinite amount of time.
 * ''I shall love you forever.
 * 1)  for a very long time, 'an' eternity.
 * ''We had to wait forever to get inside.
 * 1)  for an excessively long time.
 * It took her forever to get dressed and ready for the party.
 * ''The drive to his mothers' house took forever.
 * 1) at all times, anytime, always
 * ''You'll have a home here forever, my son!
 * 1)  constantly or frequently.
 * ''You are forever nagging me.
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 * 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.

Noun

 * 1) An extremely long time.
 * It takes forever to get business a permit and a landline.
 * 1)  a mythical time in the infinite future that will never come.
 * ''Sure, I'd be happy to meet with you on the 12th of forever.
 * ''Sure, I'd be happy to meet with you on the 12th of forever.

Synonyms for Forever
evermore, forevermore, for ever more, incessantly, continually, eternally, always, until Kingdom come, perpetually, everlastingly, endlessly, immortally, unremittingly.

Antonyms for Forever
briefly, temporarily, shortly, fleetingly, transitorily.

Derived terms

 * foreverness

Related terms

 * everlasting
 * every
 * everyday
 * never
 * nevermore
 * whatever
 * whenever
 * whoever

Thesaurus
ad infinitum, all-comprehensiveness, all-inclusiveness, always, an eternity, aye, boundlessly, boundlessness, countlessness, endless time, endlessly, endlessness, eternally, eternity, ever, ever and again, ever and anon, evermore, exhaustlessness, for all time, for aye, for good, for keeps, forever and aye, forevermore, illimitability, illimitably, immeasurability, immeasurably, immensely, immensity, in all ages, in perpetuity, incalculability, incalculably, incomprehensibility, incomprehensibly, inexhaustibility, infinitely, infiniteness, infinitude, infinity, innumerability, innumerably, interminability, interminably, limitlessly, limitlessness, measurelessly, measurelessness, now and forever, numberlessness, perpetuity, termlessness, throughout the ages, till doomsday, till time stops, time without end, to infinity, universality, unmeasurability, without end, without limit, world without end

Alternative forms

 * for ever

Adverb

 * Arabic: إلى الأبد
 * Armenian: ընդմիշտ
 * Cherokee: ᎢᎪᎯᏛ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 永久, 永遠, 永远
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: eeuwig, (voor) altijd
 * Finnish:
 * French: à jamais
 * German:, , , ,  für eger
 * Hindi: हमेशा के लिए, कभी के लिए
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Irish: go bráth,
 * Italian: per sempre
 * Japanese: 永久, 永遠
 * Khmer:


 * Korean: 영원 (永遠 + 히)
 * Latin: in perpetuum, in omne tempus
 * Navajo:
 * Persian: برای همیشه
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: para sempre
 * Russian:, , , навеки
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish: para siempre
 * Swahili:
 * Thai: ตลอดไป, นิรันดร์
 * Turkish: sonsuza kadar, sonsuza dek
 * Ukrainian: назавжди, навік, вічно
 * Urdu: ہمیشہ کے لئے
 * Vietnamese: mãi mãi, vĩnh viễn (永遠)
 * West Frisian: ivich


 * Dutch: een eeuwigheid, eeuwen, tijden
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,


 * Russian: целую вечность
 * Swahili:
 * West Frisian: ivich


 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,


 * Russian: целую вечность
 * Spanish: por siempre
 * Swahili:


 * Dutch: ,
 * French: toujours


 * Latin: semper
 * Spanish: para siempre, siempre


 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * German:, , ,
 * Hungarian:


 * Polish: cały czas
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: constantemente, sin cesar
 * Swahili:

Noun

 * Spanish: eternidad


 * Swahili:


 * : éternellement, toujours
 * :, לנצח
 * : ずっと (zutto); 永遠 (eien)
 * : 영원히 /jɜŋwənhiː/


 * : eko dokin
 * : gu bràth, gu sìorraidh, gu suthain, gu suthain sìorraidh, a-chaoidh
 * : por siempre, para siempre
 * : (för) alltid, (för) evigt