Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. Nonstandard In any case.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
- adv. In any way.
- adv. conjunctive (nonstandard) Anyway, anyhow, in any case.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement
Etymologies
- From any + adverbial genitive of way (compare always). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Any woman having an abortion goes through so much pain anyways and on top of that morons like Bob Nelson have right to tell her 'No, I won't provide money for your medical expenses .”
“Destroy/Destruction in this context, to me anyways, is violent in nature.”
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“India is a culture (or the parts I was in anyways) where men and women do not touch in public.”
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“May 20th, 2008 8: 46 pm ET who cares? obama will win anyways esp with ur campaign staff fleeing ur sinking ship”
“I've said many times that Knight Rider isn't a good television show and it's not compelling in anyways, but what it does do well is keeping the pace fastand moving.”
“Just thinking aloud here - And, if they're toxins that came out of your body - how are you worse off by having them sealed in anyways?”
“Like, if you touch her and she tells you not to and you keep doing it anyways, is she going to get up and kick your ass?”
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“Really, anything to beat Titanic out of the number one spot .... then again, Revolutionary Road is coming out, and since it has the stars from Titanic, we know that's going to win anyways, TDK should just give up. charles”
“You say, well, it's hard for them to score better, but shouldn't they be let in anyways?”
“Hmm some five odd thousand people at a few cents per re-direct … Hmm, yeah what the heck, we know it's a mis-print but who's gonna complain anyways?”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘anyways’.
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vinyl's Words
deliverator, finna, metric fuckton, fag, hyphy, ginormous, sacrilicious, fantabulous, macaca, n-word, pterodactyl, genious and 560 more...
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DEF's list
Obscure Words
obfuscate, harbinger, morose, meniscus, conspicuous, grandiose, cogitated, matron, erudite, oness, apothegms, assuage and 475 more...
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Cringe List
No. Just no.
"Slang, though humanly irreverent, tends to be inhumanly loveless. It lacks tenderness and compassion; its poetry has the effulgence of a soldier's brass buttons."
...woot, w00t, anyways, whatever, totes, booyah, sick, ill, nom, anyhoo, frickin', jeebus and 81 more...
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λέξεις (μου)
γαλαζόνει�?ον πένθος, Κλήμης Αλεξανδ�?είας, γεζουίτης, κοβάλτιο, Όνομα του πατ�?ός, objet petit a, ινδογε�?μανικές, �?α�?τες, γενική θεω�?ία τη..., σημείο, διάψευσις, διευθέτηση and 15 more...
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the hate list
words that give me the heebidie jeebidies
suffragette, get 'er done, fringe, causeway, twee, jumper, tgif, actually, syringe, seltzer, raisin, whited sepulchre and 72 more...
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Unspeakables
anyways, frickin', womb, funnest, spicy, gargantuous, pudendum, ginormous, moist, caddy, shabby chic, coinkydink and 2 more...
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Mogeltron
Miscellaneous idiolect that could be used to assemble a Whichbe simulator.
point of skew, character as fate, doubt for doubt, story of my life, cumulative effect, default settings, reasonable, or tr..., take care, relative proportion, is that so, cognitive bias, and whatnot and 41 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for anyways.
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