whatever

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (2)  · 
Germany is said to be against it. this one will be called whatever is French for 'the defense of menage a trois act'

View all »
Definitions (15)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (10)

  1. pronoun Everything or anything that: Do whatever you please.
  2. pronoun What amount that; the whole of what: Whatever is left over is yours.
  3. pronoun No matter what: Whatever happens, we'll meet here tonight.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (3)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (1)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • Unfortunately, they were not printable Brigadier General Theodore Marley Ham Brooks had no word whatever--the thing left him speechless. —  098 - The Golden Man
  • He spent several days haunting the meadow where his friend found the dead honker, hoping it was part of a flock or a gaggle or whatever the English word for a group of honkers was. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • In fact, no idea whatever is acceptable other than asking you to pull my feet out and take off my shoes and socks, and that would be disastrous because I would never get them back on Yeah. —  The Black Mountain
  • Schedules, to-do lists, * whatever* is more commonly chosen over relationships in our busy lives. —  The Flourishing Mother
  • They don't change their minds (or their whatever -- their curricula, their underlying philosophy, their "style," their plan, their dream) like "Name the Day" panties. —  Mental multivitamin
 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 194 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

/hwɑtˈɛvər/
by American Heritage

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word several times a day.

Recently looked up

Noda · psoriasis · grapple · Several · haly

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

qualms · poofter · oh for heaven's sake · embodies · silence