Never /(nĕv"ẽr)/

Nev·er

Never

adv.
  1. Not ever; not at any time; at no time, whether past, present, or future.
    Death still draws nearer, never seeming near.
  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.
    And he answered him to never a word.
    — Matt. xxvii. 14.
    Ask me never so much dower and gift.
    — Gen. xxxiv. 12.

Phrases & Compounds

Never a deal
not a bit.
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.