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whatever
[ wuht-ev-er, wot-, wuht-, hwuht-, hwot-, hwuht- ]
pronoun
- anything that (usually used in relative clauses):
Whatever you say is all right with me.
- (used relatively to indicate a quantity of a specified or implied antecedent):
Take whatever you like of these.
- no matter what:
Do it, whatever happens.
- any or any one of a number of things whether specifically known or not:
papers, magazines, or whatever.
- what (used interrogatively):
Whatever do you mean?
adjective
- in any amount; to any extent:
whatever merit the work has.
- no matter what:
whatever rebuffs he might receive.
- being what or who it may be:
Whatever the reason, he refuses to go.
- of any kind (used as an intensifier following the noun or pronoun it modifies):
any person whatever.
interjection
- (used to indicate indifference to a state of affairs, situation, previous statement, etc.)
whatever
/ wət-; wɒtˈɛvə /
pronoun
- everything or anything that
do whatever he asks you to
- no matter what
whatever he does, he is forgiven
- informal.an unknown or unspecified thing or things
take a hammer, chisel, or whatever
- an intensive form of what, used in questions
whatever can he have said to upset her so much?
determiner
- an intensive form of what
use whatever tools you can get hold of
adjective
- postpositive absolutely; whatsoever
I saw no point whatever in continuing
interjection
- informal.an expression used to show indifference or dismissal
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see or whatever .Example Sentences
Smoking a string of cigarettes or blankly watching whatever’s on television, her face a canvas of exhaustion and depression, Janice is struggling to pick up the pieces.
It’s boorish and grating, assuming its audience will lap up whatever tasteless parody it puts out for them just because it aligns with popular films that share its basic themes.
But it's unlikely that he'll ever take tariffs off the table regardless of whatever "deal" is made.
"There was no-one you could speak to so it relied on me going onto the US department of whatever website, trying to look at lots of detail that basically didn't exist," he says.
“So whatever time I have in L.A., I like to make the most of it,” he told The Times in a recent interview.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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