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whatsoever

English

Etymology

what +? soever

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?w?ts????v?(?)/
  • (US) IPA(key): /?(h)w?tso???v?/
  • Rhymes: -?v?(r)

Adjective

whatsoever (not comparable)

  1. Whatever.
  2. In any way; at all.
    • 2019 — Dierdre Nicole Green, "'I'm the Bishop!' and other Reflections" A Place to Belong, Deseret Book (2019), ?ISBN page 141]:
      ...my father's role as the ecclesiastical leader of our ward gave me no license whatsoever to expect obedience from my agemates?

Alternative forms

  • what-so-ever

Synonyms

  • (in any way): whatever (dated)

Translations

Pronoun

whatsoever

  1. (archaic) whatever
    • Whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.
    • c. 1613-1621, Francis Bacon, The judicial charge upon the commission of Oyer and Terminer held for the verge of the Court
      [] I must require you to use diligence in presenting especially those purloinings and imbezlements, which are of plate, vessel, or whatsoever within the King's house.

Usage notes

The word is sometimes divided by tmesis: “What things soever ye desire”. (Mark 11:24)

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whatever

English

Etymology

what +? -ever

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??t??v?/, /w?t??v?/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /w?t??v?/, /w????v?/
  • Rhymes: -?v?(r)

Unusually, the /t/ in whatever may be flapped in certain dialects, despite preceding a stressed syllable.

Determiner

whatever

  1. no matter what; for any
  2. (relative) Anything that.

Derived terms

  • whateverism
  • whateverness
  • whatsoever

Related terms

  • whatever creams your twinkie
  • whatever floats your boat
  • whatever it takes

Translations

Pronoun

whatever

  1. No matter what; for any
  2. (relative) Anything; sometimes used to indicate that the speaker does not care about options.

Translations

Interjection

whatever

  1. (colloquial, dismissive) A holophrastic expression used discourteously to indicate that the speaker does not consider the matter worthy of further discussion.

Usage notes

  • Tone of voice is particularly important here in playing up or playing down the dismissive quality of the word.

Synonyms

  • so what
  • whoopee do
  • meh
  • whatev

Translations

Adjective

whatever (comparative more whatever, superlative most whatever)

  1. (colloquial) Unexceptional or unimportant; blah.
  2. (dated, postpositive) At all, absolutely, whatsoever.
    • 1864, Charles Piazzi Smyth, Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid (page 207)
      So then arose the horrible confusion perpetuated ever since, of perversely different kinds of weights, jostling each other in Britain; Troy weight and Avoirdupois weight and Apothecaries' weight, wherein or whereamongst every one is at sea with regard to testing them, and no one whatever is satisfied.

Noun

whatever (plural whatevers)

  1. (colloquial) Something whose exact kind or nature is unimportant; a thingy.
    • 2003, David Soubly, Santa, CEO (page 91)
      How would you feel if you're a plant elf, and your daily bonus is tied to the number of whatevers you produce, and then this big clumsy thing barges in and knocks your rate back for the whole week?

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References

  • whatever at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

  • everwhat

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