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as if there were no tomorrow

as if there were no tomorrow adverb: to an excessive degree, oftentimes with little to no regard to future consequences; desperately; recklessly or wantonly; frantically; very quickly or very much.

Adverb

as if there were no tomorrow

  1. (idiomatic) To an excessive degree, oftentimes with little to no regard to future consequences; desperately; recklessly or wantonly; frantically; very quickly or very much.
    • Starting with the Pranksters, who were the first to take LSD out of the war labs and hospitals, hippies were mixing drugs as if there were no tomorrow.1999, Carol Brightman, Sweet Chaos: The Grateful Dead's American Adventure, →ISBN, page 106

as if there were no tomorrow meaning in Bengali and Tagalog

as if there were no tomorrow in Bengali

অতিরিক্ত মাত্রায়, বেপরোয়া ভাবে, উন্মত্তভাবে, খুব দ্রুত, প্রচুর পরিমাণে

as if there were no tomorrow in Tagalog

to an excessive degree
parang wala nang bukas

Synonyms of as if there were no tomorrow

Forms of as if there were no tomorrow

alternative formas if there is no tomorrow
alternative formas if there's no tomorrow
alternative formas if there was no tomorrow
alternative formlike there is no tomorrow
alternative formlike there's no tomorrow
alternative formlike there was no tomorrow
alternative formlike there were no tomorrow

Questions about as if there were no tomorrow

What does as if there were no tomorrow mean?
As if there were no tomorrow means to an excessive degree, oftentimes with little to no regard to future consequences; desperately; recklessly or wantonly; frantically; very quickly or very much.
What is as if there were no tomorrow in Bengali?
As if there were no tomorrow in Bengali is অতিরিক্ত মাত্রায়, বেপরোয়া ভাবে, উন্মত্তভাবে. See As if there were no tomorrow meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is as if there were no tomorrow?
As if there were no tomorrow is an adverb.

Words near as if there were no tomorrow in the dictionary

  1. as if one's life depended on it
  2. as if one's life depends on it
  3. as if someone owns the place
  4. as if there is no tomorrow
  5. as if there was no tomorrow
  6. as if there were no tomorrow
  7. as if there's no tomorrow
  8. as in
  9. as is
  10. as it gets
  11. as it goes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: as if there were no tomorrow (page history and authors); as if there were no tomorrow (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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