'Whatever' definitions:
Definition of 'whatever'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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" [syn: any(a), whatever, whatsoever]
Definition of 'Whatever'
From: GCIDE
- Whatever \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. [1913 Webster]
- Whatever fortune stays from his word. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Whatever Earth, all-bearing mother, yields. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Whatever be its intrinsic value. --J. H. Newman. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Whatever often follows a noun, being used elliptically. "There being no room for any physical discovery whatever" [sc. it may be]. --Whately. [1913 Webster] Whatnot