Submitted by sigurd • April 24, 2011

Is “nevermore” a real word?

Is “nevermore” a real word? Can it be used in “ordinary” writing? I’m wondering because it seems to be the only word that means ‘never again’, and it would be nice to have a concise word.

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Red

May 9, 2011, 11:05am

Blast! I was going to quote that pesky bird.

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Kyle

May 11, 2011, 5:26pm

Ultimately, "real words" are words that enough people use and understand for it to hold some currency. So if "nevermore" wasn't a word before Edgar Allan Poe, it certainly is now.

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dianne roberti

May 6, 2011, 7:02pm

Edgar Allan Poe used it in The Raven: Quoth the raven: "Nevermore".

http://www.heise.de/ix/raven/Literature/Lore/Th...

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jalinweaver

May 4, 2011, 9:37pm

Personally, I think if you understand the meaning of the word or if the message gets across then it's a "real" word. I understand it, I see what message you're trying to convey so I say yes.

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sigurd

May 12, 2011, 8:56am

I guess so ... .

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AnWulf

August 2, 2011, 3:54pm

Nevermore has been around for several hundred years and is a perfectly good word to use.

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xenomi

April 24, 2011, 2:07pm

Yes, you can find it in the dictionary: http://oxforddictionaries.com/view/entry/m_en_g...