anywayadverb
uk/ˈen.i.weɪ/us/ˈen.i.weɪ/also anyhowA2 whatever else is happening, without considering other things:
Of course I don't mind taking you home - I'm going that way anyway.
"I thought you said everyone had left." "Well, some of them have anyway."
Her parents were opposed to her giving up her course, but she did it anyway.
A2 In conversation, anyway is also used to change the subject, return to an earlier subject, or get to the most interesting point:
Anyway, as I said, I'll be away next week.
Anyway, in the end I didn't wear your jacket.
What was he doing with so much of the company's money in his personal account anyway?
B1 used to give a more important reason for something that you are saying:
I don't have time to go, and anyway it's too expensive.
More examples
- The meal isn't nearly ready yet, but I expect that they'll be late anyway.
- Liberman realized Kurt was unsuited to office life, but offered him a contract anyway.
- The head teacher refused to let us try it, and it was a pretty daft idea anyway.
- I have no chance of winning the competition, but I'm going to enter anyway.
- Even if it is pouring with rain, the event will take place anyway.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Linguistics: connecting words joining words or phrases with similar or related meanings
- and/or 2
- anyways
- concatenate
- conjunctive
- connective
- consequently
- ergo
- hereby
- mean
- moreover
- never
- now
- OK
- so
- sure enough idiom
- the thing is idiom
- there
- thing
- what
- with that idiom
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