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eternally

adverbattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ɪˈtɜː.nə.li//
  • United Kingdom//ɪˈtɜːn.li//
  • Canada//ɪˈtɝ.nə.li//
  • Canada//iˈtɝ.nə.li//
  • Australia//ɪˈtɜːn.li//

For eternity; forever.

adverb

  1. 1

    For eternity; forever.

    I shall be eternally grateful for your assistance.

    Finding realistic needle-moving signings is especially hard when clubs do not want to sell at this stage of a campaign, while you are eternally at the mercy of those with bigger teeth and sharper claws further up the food chain.

  2. 2

    Unceasingly, recurringly.

    The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it.

Etymology

From Middle English eternally, eternaly; equivalent to eternal + -ly.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).