Definitions for: Whatever


[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"



Webster (1913) 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.

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

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