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Meaning of WHATEVER

Pronunciation:  wut'evur

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 Definition: [adj]  one or some or every or all without specification; "give me any peaches you don't want"; "not any milk is left"; "any child would know that"; "pick any card"; "any day now"; "cars can be rented at almost any airport"; "at twilight or any other time"; "beyond any doubt"; "need any help we can get"; "give me whatever peaches you don't want"; "no milk whatsoever is left"
 
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 Synonyms: any(a), some(a), whatsoever
 

 

 

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Whatever
The narrator is a thirty something computer programmer bored with his job, the people he works with, love and without the energy to commit suicide. He survives making darkly comic reflections on the world as he sees it.

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\What*ev"er\, pron.
Anything soever which; the thing or things of any kind; being
this or that; of one nature or another; one thing or another;
anything that may be; all that; the whole that; all
particulars that; -- used both substantively and adjectively.
      Whatever fortune stays from his word.    --Shak.
      Whatever Earth, all-bearing mother, yields. --Milton.
      Whatever be its intrinsic value.         --J. H.
                                               Newman.
Note: Whatever often follows a noun, being used elliptically.
      ``There being no room for any physical discovery
      whatever'' [sc. it may be]. --Whately.
 

 

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