EVER-CHANGING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ever-changing mean? 

• EVER-CHANGING (adjective)
  The adjective EVER-CHANGING has 1 sense:

1. marked by continuous change or effective action

  Familiarity information: EVER-CHANGING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVER-CHANGING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked by continuous change or effective action

Synonyms:

changing; ever-changing

Similar:

dynamic; dynamical (characterized by action or forcefulness or force of personality)

 Context examples 

It was a monotonous yet ever-changing scene.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The ever-changing “head” of an influenza virus protein has an unexpected Achilles heel, report scientists.

(Human antibody reveals hidden vulnerability in influenza virus, National Institutes of Health)

For three hours we strolled about together, watching the ever-changing kaleidoscope of life as it ebbs and flows through Fleet Street and the Strand.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The order was swiftly obeyed, and in ten minutes the archers were stretched along by the side of the brook, munching the bread and the bacon which they had brought in their bags, and craning their necks to watch the ever-changing scene beneath them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Considering that these microbes live in the sea—a heterogeneous, and ever-changing environment—up until now it has been impossible to determine if they lived alone, in small groups, or if they were able to form unified communities.

(Study by UGR and MIT reveals microbial plankton live in complex communities, University of Granada)

He would tell the history of the mighty river so rapidly explored (for some of the first conquerors of Peru actually crossed the entire continent upon its waters), and yet so unknown in regard to all that lay behind its ever-changing banks.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then came archers of the guard, shrill-voiced women of the camp, English pages with their fair skins and blue wondering eyes, dark-robed friars, lounging men-at-arms, swarthy loud-tongued Gascon serving-men, seamen from the river, rude peasants of the Medoc, and becloaked and befeathered squires of the court, all jostling and pushing in an ever-changing, many-colored stream, while English, French, Welsh, Basque, and the varied dialects of Gascony and Guienne filled the air with their babel.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)