Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb In whatever way or manner; however.
- adverb In a careless way; haphazardly.
- adverb In any case; at least.
- adverb Nevertheless.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In any way or manner whatever; howsoever.
- In any case; at any rate; at all events; however that may be; however: as, anyhow, he failed to appear; anyhow, I don't believe it can be done.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In any way or manner whatever; at any rate; in any event.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb manner In
any way ormanner whatever. - adverb conjunctive
In any case . Used toindicate that astatement explains orsupports aprevious statement.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement
- adverb in any way whatsoever
Etymologies
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Examples
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Meaning voting, which I take very seriously anyhow, is more important than ever, because we have something to say about our voting future, as well.
Archive 2007-10-01 kittenpie 2007
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Meaning voting, which I take very seriously anyhow, is more important than ever, because we have something to say about our voting future, as well.
Decisions, Decisions kittenpie 2007
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He's not actually from the ancient, noble family d'Estaing, but he uses the name anyhow, and acts as though he were.
Frenchness. Ann Althouse 2007
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It would involve a long delay — perhaps a year and a half, perhaps longer, at the end of which period he might have to serve his prison term anyhow, and pending which he would certainly have to undergo incarceration for a time.
The Financier 2004
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It would have been in French anyhow, a language in which I am hopeless.
trinityboy Diary Entry trinityboy 2004
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"How could they think they'd have a clear title anyhow?"
Survivors McCaffrey, Anne 1984
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They couldn't get in anyhow but we voted for them.
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It would involve a long delay -- perhaps a year and a half, perhaps longer, at the end of which period he might have to serve his prison term anyhow, and pending which he would certainly have to undergo incarceration for a time.
The Financier, a novel Theodore Dreiser 1908
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"I am keeping my word anyhow," he said; "but I am only coming to tell you I got to go to Chicago."
Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter Montague Glass 1905
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He put his clothes in the portmanteau anyhow and crushed them firmly down.
Happy Pollyooly The Rich Little Poor Girl Edgar Jepson 1900
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