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what now

what now phrase: a request for advice or instruction on what should be done.

Phrase

what now?

  1. A request for advice or instruction on what should be done.
    Synonyms:
    now what
  2. A request, usually rhetorical, to know what, in a series of negative events, is the next negative event occurring.
    Synonyms:
    now what
  3. Synonym of what do you want? (said out of irritation)
    Synonyms:
    what do you want?
  4. Synonym of how's that.
    Synonyms:
    how's that

Synonyms of what now

Questions about what now

What does what now mean?
What now means a request for advice or instruction on what should be done.
What part of speech is what now?
What now is a phrase.

Words near what now in the dictionary

  1. what kind of music do you like
  2. what languages do you speak
  3. what next
  4. what nonsense
  5. what not
  6. what now
  7. what number
  8. what o'clock is it
  9. what of
  10. what of it
  11. what price

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