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WHATEVER
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
One or some or every or all without specification
Example:
no milk whatsoever is left
Synonyms:
any; whatever; whatsoever
Classified under:
Similar:
some ((quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity)
Context examples:
"Not what is large and brilliant—I know those qualities; but whatever you feel is adverse. I am most curious to know."
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Whatever you may happen to have in the house will be enough.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
With their fists alone they had no chance whatever.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Depend upon it, whatever esteem Mr Elliot may have for his own situation in life now, as a young man he had not the smallest value for it.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
“I am afraid that whatever theory we state has very grave objections to it,” returned my companion.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In the center of the chair was an enormous Head, without a body to support it or any arms or legs whatever.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Whatever you think will happen won’t—but something better will!
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Whatever come, you always find me here.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Whatever they find - even if it's an absence of methane - will add context to the recent measurement.
(Curiosity Detects Unusually High Methane Levels, NASA)
