Word Meanings - NEVER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Not ever; not at any time; at no time, whether past, present, or future. Shak. Death still draws nearer, never seeming near. Pope. 2. In no degree; not in the least; not. Whosoever has a friend to guide him, may carry his eyes in another man's

Additional info about word: NEVER

1. Not ever; not at any time; at no time, whether past, present, or future. Shak. Death still draws nearer, never seeming near. Pope. 2. In no degree; not in the least; not. Whosoever has a friend to guide him, may carry his eyes in another man's head, and yet see never the worse. South. And he answered him to never a word. Matt. xxvii. 14. Note: Never is much used in composition with present participles to form adjectives, as in never-ceasing, never-dying, never-ending, never-fading, never-failing, etc., retaining its usual signification. Never a deal, not a bit. Chaucer. -- Never so, as never before; more than at any other time, or in any other circumstances; especially; particularly; -- now often expressed or replaced by ever so. Ask me never so much dower and gift. Gen. xxxiv. 12. A fear of battery, ... though never so well grounded, is no duress. Blackstone.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of NEVER)

• Separate
• Part
• never
• disjoin
• disunite
• divorce
• tear
• rend
• remove
• disintegrate
• detach
• disconnect
• divide
• dissipate
• scatter
• segregate
• diverge

Related words: (words related to NEVER)

• DIVORCEABLE
  Capable of being divorced.
• DIVIDER
  An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses. Note: The word dividers is usually applied to the instrument as made for the use of draughtsmen, etc.; compasses to the coarser instrument used by carpenters.
• DIVIDEND
  A number or quantity which is to be divided. (more info) 1. A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated
• NEVERTHELESS
  Not the less; notwithstanding; in spite of that; yet. No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness. Heb. xii. 11. Syn. -- However; at least; yet; still.
• DISCONNECT
  To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse. The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious
• DISCONNECTION
  The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.
• DISINTEGRATE
  To decompose into integrant parts; as, chalk rapidly disintegrates.
• DISJOINTED
  Separated at the joints; disconnected; incoherent. -- Dis*joint"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*joint"ed*ness, n.
• DISSIPATED
  1. Squandered; scattered. "Dissipated wealth." Johnson. 2. Wasteful of health, money, etc., in the pursuit of pleasure; dissolute; intemperate. A life irregular and dissipated. Johnson.
• DETACHED
  Separate; unconnected, or imperfectly connected; as, detached parcels. "Extensive and detached empire." Burke. Detached escapement. See Escapement.
• SCATTERLING
  One who has no fixed habitation or residence; a vagabond. "Foreign scatterlings." Spenser.
• DIVORCEMENT
  Dissolution of the marriage tie; divorce; separation. Let him write her a divorcement. Deut. xxiv. 1. The divorcement of our written from our spoken language. R. Morris.
• SCATTER-BRAIN
  A giddy or thoughtless person; one incapable of concentration or attention.
• DIVIDEDLY
  Separately; in a divided manner.
• SEGREGATE
  Separated from others of the same kind. (more info) 1. Separate; select.
• REMOVER
  One who removes; as, a remover of landmarks. Bacon.
• DIVIDED
  Cut into distinct parts, by incisions which reach the midrib; - - said of a leaf. (more info) 1. Parted; disunited; distributed.
• NEVERMORE
  Never again; at no time hereafter. Testament of Love. Tyndale. Where springtime of the Hesperides Begins, but endeth nevermore. Longfellow.
• DISJOINT
  Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint. Milton.
• DETACHMENT
  1. The act of detaching or separating, or the state of being detached. 2. That which is detached; especially, a body of troops or part of a fleet sent from the main body on special service. Troops . . . widely scattered in little detachments.
• WHENEVER
  At whatever time. "Whenever that shall be." Milton.
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• INSEPARATE
  Not separate; together; united. Shak.
• SUBDIVIDE
  To divide the parts of into more parts; to part into smaller divisions; to divide again, as what has already been divided. The progenies of Cham and Japhet swarmed into colonies, and those colonies were subdivided into many others. Dryden.
• REDIVIDE
  To divide anew.
• MISDIVIDE
  To divide wrongly.