| Pronunciation: | | wut'evur
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WordNet Dictionary |
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[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" |
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WHATEVER is a 8 letter word that starts with W. |
| | Synonyms: | | any(a), some(a), whatsoever |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | 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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