Ne'er

Definitions: Ne'er

Ne'er

Adverb

1. Not ever; at no time in the past or future; "I have never been to China"; "I shall never forget this day"; "had never seen a circus"; "never on Sunday"; "I will never marry you!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "ne'er" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Synonym: Ne'er

Neverness

Adverb: never, ne'er; at no time, at no period; on the second Tuesday of the week, when Hell freezes over; on no occasion, never in all one's born days, nevermore, sine die; in no degree.

Unsubstantiality

Nothing, naught, nil, nullity, zero, cipher, no one, nobody; never a one, ne'er a one; no such thing, none in the world; nothing whatever, nothing at all, nothing on earth; not a particle; (smallness); all talk, moonshine, stuff and nonsense; matter of no importance, matter of no consequence. thing of naught, man of straw, John Doe and Richard Roe, faggot voter; nominis umbra, nonentity; flash in the pan, vox et praeterea nihil.

Crosswords: Ne'er

And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by from this day until the ending of the world but we in it shall be remembered. (Henry V; writing credit: Kenneth Branagh; William Shakespeare)

The Ne'er to Return Road (1921)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "ne'er": ne'er do well. Additional references.

Beginning with "ne'er": ne'er-do-weel, Ne'er-do-well, ne'er-do-wells.

Albanian

kurrë (at all, never, not in your life). (various references)

Bulgarian 

никога (never). (various references)

Chinese 

�'人 (Ne'er-do-well). (various references)

German

niemals (never, not for a moment), nie (never, not for a moment). (various references)

Greek 

άχρηστοσ (bootless, drossy, dud, has been, needless, ne'er do well, otiose, stuff, trashy, useless, waste, worthless). (various references)

Hungarian

sohasem (never, never-never, not for a moment, to fire with unerring aim). (various references)

Italian

mai (ever, never). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

能無し (incompetence, ne'er-do-well), 碌でなし (bum, good-for-nothing, ne'er-do-well). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

のうなし (incompetence, ne'er-do-well), ろくでなし (bum, good-for-nothing, ne'er-do-well). (various references)

Pig Latin

e'ernay.(various references)

Portuguese

nunca (ever, never), nazismo. (various references)

Romanian

secãturã (cad, good for nothing, ne'er do well, reprobate, rotter, scapegrace, trifles), pierde-varã (dangler, do nothing, fribble, gadabout, Idler, loafer, loiterer, lounger, ne'er do well, slacker, waster), om de nimic (a bad egg, flibbertigibbet, jerk, kestrel, ne'er do well, nobody, scalawag, scamp, scoundrel). (various references)

Russian 

никогда (at no time, in no circumstances, never, under no circumstances). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nikada (never). (various references)

Spanish

nunca (ever, never). (various references)

Swedish

aldrig (at the greek calends, never). (various references)

Thai

คนขี้เกียจ (dosser, lazybones, ne'er-do-well, ne've-do-well). (various references)

Turkish

hiç (any, at all, aught, by any means, ever, far from, least of all, nary, naught, never, nil, Nix, no, no whit, none, not a dreg, not a whit, not an iota, not at all, not exactly, not in the least, nothing, nought, null, nullity, ought, whatever, whatsoever, zero, zilch), asla (by no manner of means, by no means, ever, far from, in no way, in no wise, never, nevermore, no way, no whit, nohow, not a bit, not a whit, not an iota, not at all, not by a fraction, nothing, nothing doing, nowise, nuts, on no account). (various references)

Ukranian 

ніколи (at no time, never). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người vô tích sự (good-for-nothing, good-for-nought, inutility, lemon, ne'er-do-well), người đoảng (good-for-nothing, good-for-nought, lemon, ne'er-do-well, scatter-brain), vô tích sự (frothy, good-for-nothing, good-for-nought, ne'er-do-well), đoảng (ne'er-do-well, scatter-brained). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: erne.

-2 letters: ere, ern, nee, ree.

-3 letters: en, er, ne, re.

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