forever war
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.66 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A war or armed conflict that continues without clear conditions for victory or an agreed endpoint, so it appears effectively endless or unwinnable.
Example Sentences
- "“I don’t think either President Trump or President Biden are going to solve the debt crisis in this country, which is existential. I don’t think either of them are going to get us out of foreign wars, this addiction that we have to forever wars,” he said."
- "President Volodymyr Zelensky has known the day would come when the idea of another “forever war” became unappealing to NATO, and the world’s largest military alliance eventually sought to wind down its involvement."