whatever : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: whatever	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
whatever 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" Synonym(s): any(a), whatever, whatsoever
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Whatever \Whatev"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. [bd]There being no room for any physical discovery whatever[b8] [sc. it may be]. --Whately.