nevermore
At no future
Nevermore means never again—at no future time.
The word is literary and archaic, rarely used in ordinary speech.
Its fame comes almost entirely from Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven," where a bird repeats it as a haunting refrain: Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."
Large black carrion bird
- quothArchaic verb: spoke
- LenoreLamented woman's name
- midnightTwelve o'clock at night
- drearyDull and depressing
Edgar Allan Poe · December · chamber · tapping · ominous · prophet · ghastly · grim
For all time
- eternityBoundless temporal existence
- irreversibleCannot be undone
- permanentFixed without end
- conclusiveEnding all debate
irrevocable · ultimate · terminal · decisive · unalterable · sealed · fated · destined
Beyond possibility of success
- despairTotal absence of hope
- desolationState of complete emptiness
- melancholySubdued, lasting sadness
- gloomPervasive dimness or dejection
sorrow · anguish · bleakness · resignation · forlornness · grief · mourning · loss
Solemn personal commitment
- pledgeBinding promise given
- oathFormal binding promise
- forswearReject under oath
- renounceFormally give up
abstain · abjure · relinquish · swear off · break with · leave behind · forsake · abandon
raven
Large black carrion bird
Edgar Allan Poe · dreary · December · chamber · tapping · ominous · prophet · ghastly · grim · bleak
forever
For all time
- eternityBoundless temporal existence
- irreversibleCannot be undone
- permanentFixed without end
conclusive · irrevocable · ultimate · terminal · decisive · unalterable · sealed · fated · destined · inexorable
hopeless
Beyond possibility of success
- despairTotal absence of hope
- desolationState of complete emptiness
- melancholySubdued, lasting sadness
gloom · sorrow · anguish · bleakness · resignation · forlornness · grief · mourning · loss · longing
vow
Solemn personal commitment
renounce · abstain · abjure · relinquish · swear off · break with · leave behind · forsake · abandon · repudiate
- Famous Poetryto be or not to be, road not taken, jabberwocky, daffodils, Kubla Khan
- archaic adverbsanon, betimes, ere, erstwhile, forsooth
- classic excerptsto be or not to be, call me Ishmael, once upon a time, et tu Brute, all the world's a stage
- poetic phrasesonce upon a time, happily ever after, star-crossed lovers, sweet sorrow, eternal flame
- song refrainschorus, refrain, burden, fa la la, la la la
nevermoreforever
For all time
always · eternally · forevermore · evermore · perpetually
nevermorealways
At all times
constantly · continually · invariably · ever · unfailingly