whatever Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite one or some or every or all without specification
    whatsoever; any.
    • 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

WordNet


What*ev"er pronoun
Definitions
  1. 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.
    Whatever often follows a noun, being used elliptically. "There being no room for any physical discovery whatever" [sc. it may be]. Whately.

Webster 1913