perennially

[puh-ren-ee-uh-lee]

adverb

1. perpetually, repeatedly, or continually; throughout the year or years.

   For our main dish I suggest salmon, which is perennially popular.

   Many rural dwellers are not located along perennially flowing river channels.

2. year after year, without needing to be replanted.

   Chives are a member of the onion (allium) family and grow perennially.

Word History and Origins

Origin of perennially¹

perennial ( def. ) + -ly

Example Sentences

"The right thing to do is accelerate this," he said, adding later: "We are sort of perennially operating the family of apps and ads business in a compute-starved state at this point."

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Consider the FBI under the manifestly incompetent leadership of current director Kash Patel, whose perennially startled demeanor gives actual deer caught in actual headlights a bad name.

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His spirit, like the fingers of his one hand, is perennially “reaching out, closing in, then missing, missing, missing, missing.”

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The Permian Basin produces huge amounts of natural gas from oil wells, but companies there are perennially short on pipes to send the byproduct to markets.

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“They’re a lot like our perennially popular original Mac & Cheese Bites, but… butternut, baby!”

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