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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adverbial forever has 3 senses
- forever(r = adv.all) eternally, everlastingly, evermore - for a limitless time; "no one can live forever"; "brightly beams our Father's mercy from his lighthouse evermore"
- forever(r = adv.all) forever and a day - for a very long or seemingly endless time; "she took forever to write the paper"; "we had to wait forever and a day"
- forever(r = adv.all) always, constantly, incessantly, perpetually - without interruption; "the world is constantly changing"
CIDE DICTIONARY
forever, adv. [For, prep. + ever.].
- Through eternity; through endless ages; eternally. [1913 Webster]
- At all times; always. [1913 Webster]" In England, for and ever are usually written and printed as two separate words; but, in the United States, the general practice is to make but a single word of them." [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- Constantly; continually; invariably; unchangeably; incessantly; always; perpetually; unceasingly; ceaselessly; interminably; everlastingly; endlessly; eternally.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
forever, adv. continually, persistently (is forever complaining) (cf. for ever).
THESAURUS
forever
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
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