forever

For all time, or for the rest of someone's life.

• I will love you forever.
• Nothing lasts forever.
• She left the village forever.

Similar words: always, eternally, permanently

Opposites: temporarily

Common phrases: last forever, stay forever, forever and ever

Very often or all the time, especially in a way that annoys someone.

• You are forever complaining.
• She was forever asking me for money.
• Why are they forever changing the rules?

How to use it: be forever doing something (He is forever losing his keys.)

Similar words: always, constantly, continually

Opposites: never

Common phrases: forever complaining, forever losing things, forever changing

For a time that has no end, or for a very long time.

• We cannot wait forever.
• He wanted to live forever.
• Will these memories last forever?

Similar words: for ever, for all time

Common phrases: last forever, live forever, wait forever

A very long period of time, especially one that feels too long.

• This queue is taking forever.
• I haven't seen her in forever.
• The journey felt like forever.

Similar words: ages, an eternity

Common phrases: take forever, in forever, seem like forever

An imaginary future time that will never arrive, mentioned as a joke.

• The meeting is scheduled for the twelfth of forever.
• He promised to pay me on the first day of forever.
• Her deadline seems to be the last day of forever.

Common phrases: until forever arrives, twelfth of forever