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whatsoever

UK/ˌwɒtsəʊˈɛvə(ɹ)//ˌ(h)wʌtsoʊˈɛvɚ/

whatsoever determiner: whatever.

Determiner

whatsoever

  1. (formal, literary) Whatever.
    • The building may be used for whatsoever purpose the tenant desires.
    • […]In whatſoever ſhape he lurk,[…]1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...

Adverb

whatsoever (not comparable)

  1. In any way; at all; whatever.
    • He gave me no answer whatsoever.
    • In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 1

Pronoun

whatsoever

  1. (archaic, literary) Whatever.
    • Whatsoever you seek, you will find.
    • Whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 31:16

whatsoever meaning in Urdu

whatsoever in Urdu

جو, کوئی نہیں

Examples of whatsoever in a sentence

  • I can speak Japanese fairly well, but I have no understanding whatsoever of written Japanese.
  • I've been working my socks off all week for no reward whatsoever.
  • My opinions are of no consequence whatsoever to my parents.

All 40 example sentences with whatsoever

Forms of whatsoever

alternative form (rare)what-so-ever
alternative form (archaic)whatsomever
alternative form (obsolete)whatsoe're

Origin of whatsoever

From Middle English whatsoever. By surface analysis, what + so + -ever.

Words that rhyme with whatsoever

17 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about whatsoever

What does whatsoever mean?
Whatsoever means whatever.
What is whatsoever in Urdu?
Whatsoever in Urdu is جو, کوئی نہیں. See Whatsoever meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is whatsoever?
Whatsoever can be a determiner, an adverb or a pronoun.
How do you pronounce whatsoever?
Whatsoever is pronounced /ˌwɒtsəʊˈɛvə(ɹ)/ (UK).

Words near whatsoever in the dictionary

  1. whatsits
  2. whatsitsname
  3. whatsitsnames
  4. whatso
  5. whatsoe'er
  6. whatsoever
  7. whatsomever
  8. Whatstandwell
  9. whatstheirface
  10. whatstheirfaces
  11. whatstheirname

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: whatsoever (page history and authors); whatsoever (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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