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The adverb never means "at no time," or "not at all." If you're never going to win a Monopoly game against your brother, you won't beat him next week, next year, or when you're both 80 years old.

Something that never happens didn't occur in the past and won't ever occur in the future, either. Never is a blunt, absolute kind of word. If you wonder whether your dad will let you drive his BMW some day, and he responds, "That's never going to happen," you can forget about it. The Old English root is næfre, a compound of ne, "not or no," and æfre, "ever."

Definitions of never
adverb 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!”
synonyms:ne'er
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adverb not at all; certainly not; not in any circumstances
“never fear”
“bringing up children is never easy”
“that will never do”
“what is morally wrong can never be politically right”
Pronunciation
US
/ˈnɛvər/
UK
/ˈnɛvə/
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Examples from books and articles
I had never been in Julian’s house, had never even seen it, though I assumed the rest of them had been there a hundred times.
The Secret History
Logically speaking, a sentence with a naysaying word like not, no, neither, nor, or never is just the mirror image of an affirmative sentence.
The Sense of Style
She was never mentioned to anyone because we simply didn’t have enough of her to share.
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I’d always thought of her as Sally’s sidekick, never as being her own person too.
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