and so forth

1. 1.

   continuing in the same way

   Synonymsand so onetceteraetc.

Questions about and so forth

What does and so forth mean?

and so forth means "continuing in the same way".

What is another word for and so forth?

Close synonyms include and so on, etcetera, etc.. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is and so forth a common word?

and so forth is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.