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whatever

/wɒtˈɛvə/ · adjective

Meaning

  1. Unexceptional or unimportant; blah.
  2. At all, absolutely, whatsoever.
  3. No matter what; for any
  4. (relative) Anything; sometimes used to indicate that the speaker does not care about options.
  5. (dismissive) A holophrastic expression used discourteously to indicate that the speaker does not consider the matter worthy of further discussion.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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