forever

6 definitions • 7 examples

for all time:

I like the house but I don't imagine I'll live there forever.

for an extremely long time or too much time:

take forever 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.

existing or happening for all time in the future:

forever home Today, more than 500,000 US children wait in foster care for a forever home.

for all time, without end:

Nobody lives forever.

Forever can also mean always or frequently:

She was forever late for appointments.

He was forever saying that he’d pay me back, but he never did.