What does whatever mean?
Definitions for whatever
ʰwʌtˈɛv ər, ʰwɒt-, ʰwət-, wʌt-, wɒt-, wət-what·ev·er
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word whatever.
Princeton's WordNet
any(a), whatever, whatsoever(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"
Wiktionary
whatever(Pronoun)
Anything; used to indicate that the speaker does not care about options.
whatever(Adjective)
Unexceptional or unimportant; blah.
Whatever choice you make, there will be consequences.
whatever(Adjective)
No matter which; for any
Whatever choice you make, there will be consequences.
whatever(Adjective)
Anything that.
Whatever you say is fine with me.
whatever(Interjection)
A holophrastic expression used discourteously to indicate that the speaker does not consider the matter worthy of further discussion.
Webster Dictionary
Whatever
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
Freebase
Whatever
"Whatever" is the sixth song performed by Japanese singer-songwriter Ayumi Hamasaki, for her album Loveppears. The song was written by Hamsaki herself, composed by Kazuhito Kikuchi and produced by Max Matsuura. The song is a trance and electronic dance. The album version, which is the Dub 1999 Remix was released as the single version. The J Version was released with the single version. It is over seven minutes long. "Whatever" peaked at number 5 on the Japanese Oricon charts. In the music video, it features Hamasaki in a white baby-blue room where water falls, where she is sitting on a seat in a white suit. In the video, small intercut scenes of a boy in an angel costume is seen. Critical reception was mostly positive from critics. The song was released February 10, 1999 in Japan, and later released worldwide digitally.
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'whatever' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #916
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'whatever' in Written Corpus Frequency: #332
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of whatever in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of whatever in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of whatever in a Sentence
Whatever the truth, it is clearly very uncomfortable for the (Egyptian) regime.
At one point we beeped at her and I yelled ‘Get off your phone!’ and she looked and smirked at me and went right back to doing whatever it was on her phone.
If you've not been dreaming and thinking big all these while. You've got to start dreaming and thinking big in order to become big eventually. For, high perception, imagination, anticipation and expectation precedes high success, achievement and attainment. I mean, you can and will achieve whatever you can perceive, imagine, anticipate and expect. Besides that, anybody who longs or aspires to emerge or become a millionaier or billionaier someday must think, speak and act like a millionaier or billionaier.
Once the Brexit process is concluded—and perhaps the U.K. has left the EU, I don’t know, whatever you’re going to do is okay with us, just make sure we can trade together. That’s all that matters.
Whatever they are, they're definitely weird.
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Translations for whatever
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- ايا كانArabic
- To je jednoCzech
- uanset hvadDanish
- was auch immerGerman
- whateverGreek
- lo que seaSpanish
- هر چهPersian
- aivan samaFinnish
- peu importeFrench
- जो कुछHindi
- Masa bodoIndonesian
- qualunque cosaItalian
- מה שתגידHebrew
- なんでもJapanese
- ಏನಾದರೂKannada
- 도대체 무엇이Korean
- quae semperLatin
- wat dan ookDutch
- samme detNorwegian
- cokolwiekPolish
- tanto fazPortuguese
- indiferent deRomanian
- любойRussian
- vad som helstSwedish
- எதுவாகTamil
- her neyseTurkish
- що завгодноUkrainian
- کچھ بھیUrdu
- וואס א חילוקYiddish
- 任何Chinese
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