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Meaning of WHATEVER

Pronunciation:  wut'evur

 
WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
[adj]  one or some or every or all without specification; "give me any peaches you don't want"; "not any milk is left"; "any child would know that"; "pick any card"; "any day now"; "cars can be rented at almost any airport"; "at twilight or any other time"; "beyond any doubt"; "need any help we can get"; "give me whatever peaches you don't want"; "no milk whatsoever is left"
 

WHATEVER is a 8 letter word that starts with W.

 

 Synonyms: any(a), some(a), whatsoever
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\What*ev"er\, pron.
Anything soever which; the thing or things of any kind; being
this or that; of one nature or another; one thing or another;
anything that may be; all that; the whole that; all
particulars that; -- used both substantively and adjectively.

      Whatever fortune stays from his word.    --Shak.

      Whatever Earth, all-bearing mother, yields. --Milton.

      Whatever be its intrinsic value.         --J. H.
                                               Newman.

Note: Whatever often follows a noun, being used elliptically.
      ``There being no room for any physical discovery
      whatever'' [sc. it may be]. --Whately.

 

 

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