whatever

1. (interrogative) What ever; emphatic form of 'what'.Examples: "Good heavens! Whatever time is it?!"interrogative

1. (interrogative) What ever; emphasised form of 'what', used to ask which thing, event, circumstance, etc.Examples: "Whatever do you mean?"; "Whatever happened to Leon Trotsky? He got an ice pick That made his ears burn"interrogative

2. (fused relative) Anything that; all that.Examples: "Do whatever works."; "I’ll do whatever I can."; "And ſpight of Pride, and in thy Reaſon's ſpight, / One truth is clear; "Whatever Is, is Right.""

3. (informal) Anything; thing(s) of unspecified kind, or no matter what kind; sometimes used to indicate that the speaker does not care about options.Examples: "I don't need any of this stuff, so take whatever."; ""As far as I'm concerned, Alec is dead. Whatever they've got in there, that — whatever —.""; "There's a pile of stuff on that table; clippings, pamphlets, posters, whatever, that needs to be sorted and filed."informal

1. (with negative) At all; in any way; whatsoever.Examples: "There is no point whatever in going on with this discussion."; "He is quite unconscious; and, though your presence is a relief to me, you must remember that there is no hope - no hope whatever."; "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."not-comparable

2. (interrogative) In what way; to what extent.Examples: "Whatever does it matter now?"interrogativenot-comparable

1. (colloquial) A holophrastic expression used to dismiss something that the speaker doesn't care about, doesn't think important, or doesn't want to consider or discuss any further. Sometimes conceived as an ellipsis of whatever you say, implying feigned deference: whatever you say [apparently must be true].Examples: "Near-synonyms: meh, so what"; "So you broke it? Whatever! Get a grip."; "Go brush your teeth. – Whatever!"Synonyms: whatev, whevs, what the fuck ever, whatever you say, ;, whoopee do, ;, if you say socolloquial

1. (colloquial) Unexceptional or unimportant; blah.Examples: "All in all, I guess I shouldn't be complaining, but the rest of the show, imho, was very whatever-ish."; "She's like so whatever / You can do so much better"colloquial