`$ dict whatever` `1 definition found` `From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:` ` Whatever \What*ev"er\, pron. 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. [1913 Webster]` ` Whatever fortune stays from his word. --Shak. [1913 Webster]` ` Whatever Earth, all-bearing mother, yields. --Milton. [1913 Webster] ` ` Whatever be its intrinsic value. --J. H. Newman. [1913 Webster] ` ` Note: Whatever often follows a noun, being used elliptically. "There being no room for any physical discovery whatever" [sc. it may be]. --Whately. [1913 Webster] Whatnot ` You sound like a PV mod.