WHATSOEVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does whatsoever mean? 

• WHATSOEVER (adjective)
  The adjective WHATSOEVER has 1 sense:

1. one or some or every or all without specification

  Familiarity information: WHATSOEVER used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHATSOEVER (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One or some or every or all without specification

Synonyms:

any; whatever; whatsoever

Context example:

no milk whatsoever is left

Similar:

some ((quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity)

 Context examples 

“I dare say, my love,” rejoined Mr. Micawber, “that he means particularly well; but I have not yet found that he carries out his meaning, in any given direction whatsoever.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Then her father said to her: “Dearest child, why are you so sad? You shall have whatsoever you will.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The first test condition was a control in which there was no stimulation whatsoever.

(Early stimulation improves performance of bioengineered human heart cells, National Institutes of Health)

The other project was, a scheme for entirely abolishing all words whatsoever; and this was urged as a great advantage in point of health, as well as brevity.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

“All of which, you will pardon my observing, has nothing whatsoever to do with what I wish to see you about.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

If this rule were always observed; if no man allowed any pursuit whatsoever to interfere with the tranquillity of his domestic affections, Greece had not been enslaved, Cæsar would have spared his country, America would have been discovered more gradually, and the empires of Mexico and Peru had not been destroyed.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Moreover, these are only to prevent her coming out; they may not prevail on her wanting to get in; for then the Un-Dead is desperate, and must find the line of least resistance, whatsoever it may be.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Besides, I meddle not the least with any party, but write without passion, prejudice, or ill-will against any man, or number of men, whatsoever.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He drew it quickly out again, but saw that it was quite gilded, and whatsoever pains he took to wash the gold off again, all was to no purpose.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

That, if it had been my good fortune to come into the world a struldbrug, as soon as I could discover my own happiness, by understanding the difference between life and death, I would first resolve, by all arts and methods, whatsoever, to procure myself riches.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)