whyever
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (US) IPA(key): (wine–whine merger) /waɪˈɛvɚ/, (without the wine–whine merger) /ʍaɪˈɛvɚ/
Audio (US, wine–whine merger): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛvə(ɹ)
Adverb
[edit]whyever (not comparable)
- (interrogative) Why ever: an emphatic form of why.
- Whyever would someone do that?
- (uncommon) For whatever reason.
- You can use it whenever you want and whyever you want.
- 1918, Wilson Follett, The Modern Novel: A Study of the Purpose and the Meaning of Fiction, page 79:
- Whatever we do, and whyever we do it, does not every motive originate in self, and does not every act proceed out of the individual's instinct for self-fulfilment ?
- 1975, Steven Polgar, Population, Ecology, and Social Evolution, page 74:
- Whyever they began, there was no perceptible wolf at their door.
- 2006>David Weber, Linda Evans, Hell's Gate, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- "And whyever they were doing it, they were the ones responsible for what happened to her and all of the rest of my friends in the first place."
- (uncommon) Regardless of the reason (why).
- I don't care what you want. Whyever you're here, please go away.
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[edit]for whatever reason
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See also
[edit]Other emphatic forms of why:
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