not ever

Zero times, absolutely

Never.

This emphatic form appears when speakers want to stress the absolute nature of the negation: I am not ever going back there.

It's slightly more forceful than the contracted *never*, separating the negation from the time element for emphasis.

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no · nothing · impossible · none · nope · bygone · timeless · void · absence · denial · refuse · reject · nil · zero · empty · forgotten · no longer · lost

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temporal frequency

not everalways

At all times

ever · forever · constantly · eternally · perpetually

Family

not, ever, never, evermore, everlasting, everlastingly, nevermore, whoever, whatever

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G