Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. In any way or manner whatever: Get the job done anyway you can.
- adv. In any case; at least: I don't know if it was lost or stolen; anyway, it's gone.
- adv. Nevertheless; regardless: It was raining but they played the game anyway.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
- adv. speech act Used to indicate a change of subject.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. Anywise; at all.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement
- adv. in any way whatsoever
Etymologies
- any + way (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Maybe what those sued should do being that they cannot win anyway is lay down in court so to speak.”
“Further 1051 E, E. 1, E. 2 states the State of AZ, subdivisions, and agencies MAY NOT be prohibited in anyway from the sharing of a citizens info with theFeds.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Immigrants and Nazis, Communists and Cardinals
“Calling sounds like rain or thunder white noise is somewhat of a misnomer, but the makers of downloadable apps and sleep machines use the term anyway.”
“I think being unhappy in anyway is now against the law”
“Stephenson makes a very writerly comment in the introduction, how the world of Anathem is not our world but he strives to make it seem familiar by using common terms—while it may not be called "carrot" on their world, he will use the term anyway since the foods are analogous.”
“That just struck me as dumb, and since I was getting pretty burnt out on the title anyway, that was reason enough to give it up.”
“The market place is clogged as is and can scarcely hold another title anyway, regardless of how good the work is.”
“Who the hell bails in the middle of the term anyway?”
“But the key constitutional question is whether the President can define the term anyway he likes see Wolfowitz's definition, for example and claim that it is consistent with the AUMF.”
“Victor, of course, would have succeeded to the title anyway on the passing of Papa, but there might have been nothing else.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘anyway’.
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EN - Glasgow stop list
Words to be replaced by a paragraph mark if you are after terms and MWEs.
yours, yourself, yet, your, without, you, within, will, yourselves, would, why, with and 291 more...
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___ Rae
A friend of mine is changing her surname to Rae. She has a pleasant but unremarkable first name, and no middle name. So let's give her a memorable middle name. Come on Wordies, I know you can do it.
gamma, x, cosmic, sting, billy, more, death, hoo, tanker, norma, rae, sugar and 39 more...
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summary
in short, on the whole, as I said, in other words, to be sure, in fact, indeed, clearly, of course, anyway, remarkably, I think and 11 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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suzyg's Words
brandish, recompence, shopping, dichotomy, paradigm, reverse osmosis, anyway, despite, drunk, degenerate, insipid, grateful and 438 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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TT1 Lesson 5
drive thru, box, get, burger, quick, serve, all the way, pickles, medium, fries, make it, menu and 13 more...
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praveen kumar
hi, tradition, description, tolerate, embarrassment, organisational, although, contemporary, contender, intimidation, poverty, groom and 53 more...
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Words i like cause my teachers don't
aloof, bizarre, courgette, aubergine, flood, anyway, walrus, murmur
Tweets
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