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adverb

not ever; at no time: Such an idea never occurred to me.

not at all; absolutely not: never mind; This will never do.

to no extent or degree: He was never the wiser for his experience.

Idiom

never mind, don't bother; don't concern yourself.

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Never is always a great word to know.

So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:

a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.

an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.

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Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English nǣfre, equivalent to ne not + ǣfre ever

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At many colleges and universities, what never got built is almost as interesting as what did.

Economists theorized that markets were self-regulating and created the illusion that greed was never a problem.

In other words, our planet never stands upright-it is always leaning to the side.

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At many colleges and universities, what never got built is almost as interesting as what did.

Economists theorized that markets were self-regulating and created the illusion that greed was never a problem.

In other words, our planet never stands upright-it is always leaning to the side.

The sun never gets terribly high in the sky, but it also never sets.

Cavemen and dinosaurs never met, despite this humorous sculpture.

Choosing at the seafood counter has never been more challenging.

Imagine if every company you had never done business with required you to opt out of their junk mailings.

Having never observed a stable marriage close-up, she will have to guess how to make one work.

Your atlas will never be out-of-date with our printable, downloadable, always current atlas updates.

Using unpurified water is not a normal practice-it's never done.

First of all, performers today would never do four shows a day.

I've never heard about the cold storage requirement.

Never do in a meeting what could be handled with email.

If you've never heard of it either, you're probably not alone.

It seems to me that the only safe avenue is to never light that first cigarette.

Reservoirs along the river may never rise to previous levels.

If you've never cooked live crabs, it can seem a little intimidating.

He told students that they would hear from their preferred public college, even though they almost never did.

Due to the small available range, the wildcat has probably never numbered more than a few hundred animals.

The trick is to ensure that the fruit does not become ethylene-insensitive so that it never ripens.

Redheaded clowns will have all gotten into their tiny cars and driven away, never to return.

Never use cooking sherry or any other so-called cooking wines.

Enriching educational experiences was never significant.

Never before has the road to ruins been so much fun.

The real scientists are never invited to their little parties, and their work is never mentioned.

The incessant sound of rushing water permeates the home, yet never overwhelms.

We all loved the garden, thought it looked familiar, and wondered why we'd never photographed it for the magazine.

It is as if they both wish to return to a way that never was.

Sharbat has never known a happy day, her brother says, except perhaps the day of her marriage.

The tentacled snake may be the strangest serpent you've never heard of.

Yet in a powerful, psychic sense, they never parted.

Because the cement never gets wet enough to create a paste, there's little point in adding pigment to this type of project.

Take our quiz featuring sites that were never started, never finished, or are still undergoing construction.

Abuse is never well used and it has lasting mental scars that last a life time.

At the same time, public interest in the camp has never been higher.

For some reason, the neighborhood's resident sapsuckers almost never use my suet feeder.

But when the family finally came out of the cave, they never went back to retrieve anything.

They say elephants never forget, but their brainpower does not stop there.

Scientists are trained to doubt and criticize, habits that can make their company difficult, but never dull.

You'd never know that this chocolatey, smooth frozen treat is made with low-fat milk.

Nature never holds still for us and this picture celebrates that never ending change in such a beautiful way.

It may result to immediate goal, but it will never give the whole future effect.

Elson went underwater in a diving bell looking for the beast, but never returned.

He mulched them with oak leaves and has never fertilized.

When you're a red kangaroo and you're a mom, the children never seem to leave the nest.

Utterly devoted to duty, the fighters never retreat from a confrontation-even in the face of certain death.

Lee has never discussed her output, or lack of one, publicly.

He started in high school as a dishwasher at a hotel and never looked back.

Ya never think of one as your children, ya didn't give birth to them.

I've never been good at waiting around for something to do.

Chemical fuel is out of the question-you could never store enough of it.

But a male mammal using a signal to activate a reproductive cycle in a female has never been observed before.

The automotive industry has never been known for taking the initiative in cleaning up the environment.

I've done some work with fungi, and they never cease to amaze.

The decision you make is implicit in those influences, but they have never all intersected before.

But for many people, it was never really open in the first place.

We also never show a student paper to any one that is not first authorized by the instructor.

For example, reinforcement of stronger progressive taxation would never set an income cap.

He's spent his life chasing a sea monster that's never been taken alive.

It's a new kind of city in which you're never out of touch and never, ever out of options.

I've heard of people getting tenure before promotion, but never promotion before tenure.

It's unclear and will probably never be definitively answered.

The findings suggest that after learning a second language, people never look at words the same way again.

Newsrooms may look different today, but their need for speed never wavers.

The capacitive stylus has turned out to be surprisingly useful for a lot of things, but up until now it was never a flirting tool.

Most never get to work in firms, never mind as law partners.

Imagine you could write cheques that were accepted as payment but never cashed.

Being stuck in an elevator is never fun, but by and large when riding in one that's the biggest inconvenience you can expect.

If you've never grown anything from seed before, arugula is a great first crop.

They never connected the inclusionary programs in their community for people with disabilities with the slang they were using.

Never before had the world seen capital flight on such a scale and speed, causing financial markets and economies to collapse.

The mummy has been examined four times before, but it has never been seen by the public.

In our clock-studded society, the answer is never more than a glance away, and so.

The child within had never been able to have the things she wanted.

No one needs to know about your alcoholism or mental illnesses or true weaknesses, and you should never disclose them.

Poland has never been more secure, richer or better-run.

There are so many fearful things that happen, so much uncertainty, but they are never afraid.

It is a wonderful melange of the real and the fantastic, the never was and the never could be.

So, think of it that way: don't come up with a perfect answer to a question they might never ask.

There has never been so much choice in entertainment.

Neurological evidence can affect the outcome of criminal cases even if juries never hear it.

All too often, exceptional specimens go from the ground into private hands and never receive the scientific study they.

Certified organic turkeys have been fed organically grown feed all their lives and never treated with antibiotics.

He never settled into certainty, never stopped challenging himself-and getting us to challenge him-as hard as he challenged us.

But if you lose the key, or any copies you have made, you can never re-enter.

Here you can experience them all in one spot-something you'd probably never be able to do in the wild.

Radioactivity limits the potential for recycling, except for one infamous particle smasher that never saw the light of.

The person who asked me this question had never fertilized her potted plants, which were starving.

I've had campus presentations before, but never had to introduce myself to the committee.

Get off the beaten path-you'll never see the world the same way again.

The story of where modern humans came from has never been cut-and-dried, but two theories occupy the forefront of the debate.

If you set out on a straight line, you would never double back without intending to do so.

Most of the endowed and tenured professors have never written a book or anything of substance.

He became army chief of staff, but was never promoted to the joint chiefs.

Once fertile areas of the planet become desert, never to be green again within our lifetimes.

As long as opportunities and excuses for nuclear aggression persist, the world will never be safe from annihilation.

I've honestly never seen one before, never mind used one.

The space was supposed to hold a lamppost, but that never showed up, so the tiny square had grown into an eyesore.

I've never been asked that question for an academic job.

He was persuaded that it was never too late to learn and turned out to be a remarkably able.

It is an eerie place where people get lost and are never heard from again.

Even if they never show up, though, people are so fond of the dinosaur that it will likely be restored anyway.

Systemic fungicides must never be used on food crops.

It makes us feel cleansed, as if deplorable events never happened.

It has never had any truck with the government-in-exile.

At the airport the cab drivers never hustled me for my business.

But you have probably never heard of one of the inductees.

Halloween has come and gone, but it's never too late for a cool dinosaur jack-o'-lantern.

You'll never forget the moment you got it or who you bought it from,” she says.

Never, never wear a man's suit jacket with anything other than the pants it came with.

The killer was never identified, the case never solved.

Equally odd, adults can grow to nearly two feet, but never seem to leave the tunnel to eat.

Instead, construction has yet to begin-and may never happen.

It's called heli-hiking, and once you try it, you'll never hoof it uphill for a view again.

The carousel of life keeps turning, in time showing sides you might never see while moving with it.

Marion and her relatives had never seen a doctor about the mirror movements.

Never underestimate the eagerness of schlock horror filmmakers to go for the easy direct-to-video cash grab.

It's down-home and never highfalutin, slow-cooked and eaten fast, a.

New telescopes and satellites have shown us views of the sun that we've never seen before.

Thus, in the superposition of states the resonator is never really in two totally distinct places.

I've never gone for the philosophy that says travel is about self-discovery.

Finally, they even started attacking adults-a shocking sight never before photographed.

There has never been a cyber-attack of critical infrastructure, and it's not for a lack of trying.

Bolívar's dream of a unified region, a place where all nations would gather to form a stronger people, never came to be.

Lemke had never had a piano lesson--and he still has not had one.

It's so good you'll never bake a meat loaf in the oven again.

Aim to have something in bloom from early spring to late fall so that winged visitors are never without nourishment.

Never knowing the scent of freshly brewed coffee, pine.

Whether small votives or hurricane lamps, candles never fail to enhance the ambience.

By the time their light might reach us it could be so disperse that it could never be detected.

Apart from that, she never fertilizes-and after four years, the garden still looks great.

These pieces of cake were never airborne-or on the dog's face.

He has never been hospitalized for this and he maintains p/t employment, never missing a day.

Once she's created a burrow for her eggs, a female flapneck hits the road again, never to return.

But four years after losing her job she cannot, in her darkest moments, escape a nagging thought: she may never work again.

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World English Dictionary

never (ˈnɛvə)

—*adv, —sentence substitute*
1.	at no time; not ever
2.	certainly not; by no means; in no case

—*interj*
3.	Also: well I never! surely not!

usage In informal speech and writing, never can be used instead of not with the simple past tenses of certain verbs for emphasis (I never said that; I never realized how clever he was), but this usage should be avoided in serious writing

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Word Origin & History

never

O.E. næfre, compound of ne "not, no" (from PIE base *ne- "no, not;" see un-) + æfre "ever." Early used as an emphatic form of not (as still in never mind). O.E., unlike its modern descendant, had the useful custom of attaching ne to words to create their negatives,

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as in nabban for na habban "not to have." It. giammai, Fr. jamais, Sp. jamas are from L. iam "already" + magis "more;" thus lit. "at any time, ever," originally with a negative, but this has been so thoroughly absorbed in sense as to be formally omitted. Phrase never say die "don't despair" is from 1865, originally among sailors. Never mind "pay it no attention" is from 1795. Never Never Land is first attested in Australia as a name for the uninhabited northern part of Queensland, perhaps so called because anyone who had gone there once never wished to return. Meaning "imaginary, illusory or utopian place" first attested 1900 in Amer.Eng.

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Idioms & Phrases

never

In addition to the idioms beginning with never, also see better late than never; it never rains but it pours; lightning never strikes twice; now or never; watched pot never boils; wonders will never cease; you never can tell.

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