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单词 whatever
释义 whatever
I. \(ˈ) ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷\ pronoun
Etymology: Middle English, from what (I) + ever
1.
 a. : anything that : everything that
  < take whatever you want >
  < whatever Earth, all-bearing mother, yields — John Milton >
 b. : no matter what
  < seeing only his faults, and seeing them as unforgivable in his case whatever they may be elsewhere — C.H.Sykes >
  < whatever the cause, this animosity grew deeper and deeper — E.V.Burkholder >
 c. : anything at all : any of various other things that might also be mentioned : what not
  < any appliance — stove, lantern, or whatever — that is fueled by gasoline — New Yorker >
  < until you find your buffalo or rhinoceros or whatever — Alan Moorehead >
  < a marriage contract — whether it is monogamous or polygamous or whatever — Weston La Barre >
  < workers constantly walk in … arguing, complaining, or whateverTime >
 d. : something similar but hard to identify or classify with certainty
  < had lain abed some days with the measles or whatever — Mary Austin >
  < wouldn't have had a moustache when a small boy or whatever — Henry James †1916 >
2. : what I 1a(1) — used in questions expressing astonishment or perplexity
 < whatever do you mean by that >
II. adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from what (III) + ever
1.
 a. : any … that : all … that
  < and buy peace … on whatever terms could be obtained — C.S.Forester >
  < have provided most of the backbone for whatever musical tradition we have — Virgil Thomson >
 b. : no matter what
  < by whatever circumstances he had been led to a hatred of the slave power and a heightened devotion to the Union, the change was one which in a measure transformed him — W.J.Ghent >
2.
 a. : any … at all
  < men and women of whatever scholastic training or none at all — Alvin Johnson >
 b. : being in existence : of any kind at all — used for emphasis after the substantive it modifies
  < any language whatever — W.D.Preston >
  < no damage whatever — A.T.Weaver >
  < the most entrancing young girl whatever — Carl Van Doren >
III. adverb
Etymology: what (II) + ever
: in any case
 < but how far could I trust them, and in what way were they different from the trustees? Whatever, I was committed; I'd learn in the process of working with them, I thought — Ralph Ellison >
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