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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adv. Not ever; on no occasion; at no time: He had never been there before. You never can be sure.
  2. adv. Not at all; in no way; absolutely not: Never fear. That will never do.
  3. idiom. never mind Don't bother: I was hoping for some help, but never mind, I'll do it alone.
  4. idiom. never mind Not to mention; and certainly not: I can't tread water, never mind swim.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Not ever; not at any time; at no time, whether past, present, or future.
  2. In no degree; not at all; not a whit; not, emphatically.
  3. [Never in this use, with the following indefinite article a, is equivalent to no, or none, and in the contracted form ne'er a is the source of the dialectal or slang adjectivc nary.
  4. [In this idiom there is a suppressed comparison—‘never (at any other time) so (great, good, much, etc.) as in the case supposed or considered.’ Never, becoming merely emphatic, is now usually replaced by ever.

Wiktionary

  1. adv. At no time; on no occasion; in no circumstance.
  2. adv. Not at any other time; not on any other occasion; not previously.
  3. adv. colloquial Negative particle (used to negate verbs in the simple past tense; also used absolutely).

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adv. Not ever; not at any time; at no time, whether past, present, or future.
  2. adv. In no degree; not in the least; not.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adv. not ever; at no time in the past or future
  2. adv. not at all; certainly not; not in any circumstances

Etymologies

  1. Old English næfre (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old English nǣfre : ne, not; see ne in Indo-European roots + ǣfre, ever; see aiw- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “What Ardi tells us is that we never looked like chimpanzees, we �never walked like chimpanzees.”

    Catch a Pithecus by the Toe

  • “I've never been a game player, just a reader, but something makes we want to read this one..never heard about it until today..anyone else heard anything about this?”

    New Releases: Week of September 1, 2009

  • “When it comes to establishment, is religion established more by an attitude that individuals, who do have religious freedom, are expected to actually *exercise* that particular muscle, or by ingraining in every faint heart the notion that you never *never* have to face the fact that others don't share your sentiments?”

    Just in time for the election, Michael Newdow's "Under God" lawsuit is back, along with a challenge to "In God We Trust" on U.S. currency.

  • “And definitely never drink and dial…..never a good idea….”

    Think Progress » Burns next target in Abramoff probe?

  • “And definitely never drink and dial…..never a good idea….”

    Think Progress » Burns next target in Abramoff probe?

  • “So, offering up a suggestion of biological causation of differences is never value-free a cigar is _never_ just a cigar and gives the supposed difference _way_ more credence than it ever deserves.”

    Guest post by Mary Schweitzer

  • “You never know when some nut is going to come out of the woodwork and claim you stole her idea, you're stalking George Clooney and you are drunk and disorderly on the balcony late at night...oh wait...those last two things..never mind.”

    If I hold you harmless, will you hold it against me?

  • “Ohhhh but not that I am blaming him, I never  never would, it's just that I wish everything was like it used to be and that he was still happy and alive and laughing and I could be too instead of feeling like this.”

    sheepdip Diary Entry

  • “I nodded off with my head on his chest, thinking I've never been happier, I'll never leave this man, I'll never leave this place, I'll never come down, never come down ... _never come down_.”

    Never Come Down

  • “I never, _never_ expected to see them again, and it was like some kind of bloody miracle, and you were the one who -- okay, Mrs. Gamadge says we'll both be crying in a minute so I better get on with it.”

    Murder Crossed

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synonyms (3)

Words with the same meaning

  1. not
  1. ne'er
  1. on or at the greek calends

antonyms (4)

Words with the opposite meaning

  1. always
  1. sometime
  1. soon
  1. sometimes

same context (30)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. take
  2. pass
  3. can
  4. so
  5. sky
  6. no
  1. always
  2. riches
  3. was
  4. write
  5. they
  6. tremens
  1. habria
  2. sir
  3. such
  4. stand
  5. paid
  6. else
  1. look
  2. any
  3. ever
  4. there
  5. which
  6. you
  1. none
  2. poor
  3. whom
  4. laid
  5. answer
  6. council

rhymes (21)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Trevor
  2. bever
  3. clever
  4. endeavor
  1. endeavour
  2. ever
  3. forever
  4. haver
  1. however
  2. kever
  3. lever
  4. sever
  1. whatever
  2. whatsoever
  3. whenever
  4. wherever
  1. whichever
  2. whoever
  3. whomever
  4. whomsoever
  1. whosoever

reverse dictionary (269)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. monotonous throughout an interval
  2. nere
  3. nil desperandum
  4. ever so
  5. like
  6. never
  7. monotone
  8. monotonic
  9. ne'er
  10. amateur
  11. astrorhizidæ
  12. ceaseless
  13. parallel
  14. maiden aunt
  15. get
  16. feme sole
  17. maiden
  18. Macowanites
  19. epidermis
  20. drunk
  21. discovert
  22. dissipate
  23. limit
  24. come
  25. speak
  26. decyl
  27. dichogamy
  28. hubble telescope
  29. immortal
  30. cripple
  31. cryptogamia
  32. cyanic acid
  33. free states
  34. hardly ever
  35. horn
  36. nathemore
  37. ne
  38. Neil
  39. colewort
  40. colleague
  41. the greek calends
  42. chancroid
  43. glucinum
  44. greek calends
  45. ichthydiidæ
  46. incoherent
  47. joint-plane
  48. Jonah
  49. killcrop
  50. labba
  51. parabolic
  52. pseudotetanus
  53. trophonian cave
  1. tush
  2. unbegotten
  3. unbenighted
  4. unreposing
  5. unshod
  6. unslumbering
  7. unvaccinated
  8. xenogenesis
  9. black hole
  10. to give up
  11. nary
  12. ne'er-do-well
  13. nevermore
  14. never-strike
  15. nullipara
  16. paramnesia
  17. somehow
  18. cometoid
  19. AVEDA
  20. chicken hawk
  21. first base
  22. unused
  23. absurdism
  24. unwearied
  25. unbacked
  26. sea serpent
  27. apostrophe
  28. appurtenance
  29. asymptote
  30. agelast
  31. asymptotical
  32. asymptotically
  33. barrulet
  34. bissex
  35. boskoi
  36. ethyl
  37. grain-tin
  38. gry
  39. half-mark
  40. imparous
  41. dewy
  42. trace element
  43. disability
  44. Fields
  45. Earhart
  46. Noriega
  47. McCarthy
  48. Braun
  49. restless
  50. Vichy
  51. inartistic
  52. occur
  53. Rudolf
  1. solidarity
  2. unremitting
  3. Germania
  4. inexhaustible
  5. kernel
  6. never-ending
  7. might-have-been
  8. megrim
  9. leonine rhyme
  10. temerarious
  11. sleepless
  12. drugstore cowboy
  13. down-and-dirty
  14. memorable
  15. airy-fairy
  16. that
  17. acatalepsy
  18. amaranth
  19. amber room
  20. to bear in hand
  21. canon of the mass
  22. circle of perpetual apparition
  23. circle of perpetual occultation
  24. contraction
  25. forest
  26. perennialize
  27. undying
  28. unfading
  29. unmarried man
  30. ageless
  31. annulment
  32. home ground
  33. deadline
  34. bloody-minded
  35. quantum leap
  36. Cassandra
  37. get-go
  38. eyes-only
  39. hand
  40. touch
  41. on
  42. talk
  43. point
  44. fold
  45. let
  46. world
  47. such
  48. this
  49. Peter Pan
  50. popper
  51. Quaker
  52. relentless
  53. scientific fact
  1. sir karl raimund popper
  2. accommodate
  3. amount
  4. ancillary
  5. anticlimax
  6. anything
  7. appropriate
  8. bargain
  9. boo
  10. bleed
  11. breathe
  12. but
  13. bulk
  14. cease
  15. characteristic
  16. commit
  17. circumstance
  18. cotton
  19. psych
  20. dissociate
  21. distance
  22. ease
  23. early
  24. eclipse
  25. environment
  26. figure
  27. Bennett
  28. keep
  29. hurt
  30. new
  31. match
  32. smoke
  33. pension
  34. ground
  35. meet
  36. miss
  37. Scotland
  38. involved
  39. purdah
  40. night
  41. Davis
  42. hock
  43. pig
  44. outside
  45. pledge
  46. stigma
  47. hem
  48. surf
  49. rarely
  50. transcend
  51. theory
  52. political
  53. once
  1. as if
  2. deathless
  3. friend
  4. genus macowanites
  5. giant squid
  6. give up
  7. gyromitra esculenta
  8. infallibility
  9. karl popper
  10. League of Nations
  11. lima bean
  12. merry-go-round
  13. nonconvergent
  14. nonintersecting
  15. nonsensitive
  16. only
  17. only if
  18. only when
  19. open weave
  20. persistent
  21. unrelenting
  22. unrestricted
  23. virgin
  24. white oak
  25. pass
  26. abandon
  27. all-victorious
  28. amaranthine
  29. architeuthis
  30. bachelor
  31. beefsteak morel
  32. brain mushroom
  33. nathmore
  34. never the neer
  35. never so
  36. nonresistant
  37. particle
  38. perennial
  39. plight
  40. quichuan
  41. ritualism
  42. root
  43. rudiment
  44. russian church
  45. sessile
  46. spaceman
  47. syncope
  48. thallogen
  49. they
  50. unbegot
  51. unfrequented
  52. untraveled
  53. Welwitschia
  1. aber-de-vine
  2. acrimony of the humors
  3. ægialites
  4. after

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