nevermore
Americanadverb
adverb
Etymology
Origin of nevermore
Explanation
Something that happens nevermore will never happen again. After you graduate, you'll nevermore be a high school student. The adverb nevermore is a very old fashioned way to say "never again" or "at no time in the future." You might tearfully declare that after your favorite TV show ends, you'll nevermore watch television, or feel sad that you'll nevermore be a little kid playing tag without a care in the world. The most famous use of nevermore is in Edgar Allen Poe's poem "The Raven:" "Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.'"
Vocabulary lists containing nevermore
Example Sentences
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The virus has canceled the rites that human beings have created to usher the people they love into the nevermore.
From Washington Post • May 27, 2020
Quoth the Maven, SI will nevermore be the same.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2019
To her, the word was really just like nevermore or dappled.
From Slate • Aug. 6, 2019
Monseaux, who held a sign that said "Doubt the Ravens nevermore," said she wanted to come to show her support for the team.
From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2013
He had once kept an ancient raven, which he’d dubbed Edgar Allan Crow, and he’d labored for years to get the bird to speak the word nevermore.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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