forever

Universal Words adverb 1 (BrE also for ever) used to say that a particular situation or state will always exist: I'll love you forever! * After her death, their lives changed forever. * Just keep telling yourself that it won't last forever. 2 (BrE also for ever) (informal) a very long time: It takes her forever to get dressed. 3 (spoken) used with verbs in the progressive tenses to say that sb does sth very often and in a way that is annoying to other people: She's forever going on about how poor they are.