adv Forever; for all time.
- I shall be eternally grateful for your assistance.
- She swore she would love him eternally.
- The mountain stands eternally above the quiet valley, unchanged by the seasons.
- Poets have long wished to hold a single happy moment eternally.
adv Constantly or repeatedly, in an exasperated sense.
- Finding realistic needle-moving signings is especially hard when clubs do not want to sell at this stage of a campaign, while you are eternally at the mercy of those with bigger teeth and sharper claws further up the food chain.
— Glenn Speller, Championship transfer window winners and losers (2026)
- He's eternally forgetting his keys.
- My little brother is eternally asking when we will get there.
- The office printer is eternally jammed, and nobody knows why.
