Category:Whatever

What*ev"er, pron.

Defn: 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. "there Being no room for any physical discovery whatever" [sc. it may be]. Whately.