whatever Definition

1. Used as an emphatic form of what

Example: Whatever shall I do?
Form: what ever (also)
2. Anything.

Example: Take whatever you want
3. No matter what.

Example: I must finish, whatever happens
4. At all.

Example: has nothing whatever to do with you
5. colloq
Some or other.
Example: has disappeared, for whatever reason
6. Used to express uncertainty.

Example: a didgeridoo, whatever that is

colloq
... or some such thing.
Example: Use tape, glue or whatever