perpetually

American  

[per-pech-oo-uh-lee] / pərˈpɛtʃ u ə li /

adverb

1. forever or for an indefinitely long time.

   It is best to think of any software licensed in this way as perpetually licensed.

   We seem to be locked perpetually in the past.

2. without intermission or interruption; continually.

   The library received five more laptops to relieve the pressure on their perpetually busy media loan desk.

3. with continued recurrence; regularly or repeatedly: I'm the girl who loses pens constantly, forgets about quizzes in math, and is perpetually late.

   The city’s public schools, particularly in working-class neighborhoods, are perpetually understaffed.

   I'm the girl who loses pens constantly, forgets about quizzes in math, and is perpetually late.

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Other Word Forms

• nonperpetually adverb
• quasi-perpetually adverb

Etymology

Origin of perpetually

perpetual ( def. ) + -ly

Example Sentences

It seems officiating is perpetually in the spotlight and the focus of critical debate.

From Los Angeles Times

He lived entirely alone in a perpetually dying forest.

From Literature

Cognitive scientists have investigated whether the brain itself is Bayesian—a probabilistic inference engine, perpetually recalibrating, merging incoming sensory data with past experience.

From The Wall Street Journal

“The Comeback” has a way of reappearing with Valerie’s perky “hello, hello, hello!” at inflection points like this, making the perpetually out-of-step performer uncannily right on time, always.

From Salon

It’s one of those Los Angeles gas stations that garners gasps, even shrieks, from Angelenos shocked by the cost per gallon, which is perpetually priced above other pumps across the city.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• constantly
• endlessly