whatever
any or all of a kind, it does not matter which
How often you will meet it
Rank 643 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 29,763 times across 175,113 chapters — 0.014% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
determiner
- any or all of a kind, it does not matter which
pronoun
- anything at all that
whatever in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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But the pain, whatever it was, was only momentary.
Christian's Mistake · Dinah Maria Mulock Craik · Chapter 1
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Whatever the king does is good, and cannot be gainsaid; but still .
An Egyptian Princess — Volume 07 · Georg Ebers · Chapter 1
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Fearlessly, and whatever might be the result, “That is the fact,” she would say.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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Whatever scrapes they got into I always did my best to get them out.
Admiral Peters Odd Craft, Part 14. · W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs · Chapter 1
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That the murderer was known as an imbecile, had no effect whatever upon the people who thirsted for his blood.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1