whoever
/huːˈɛvə
/relative pronoun
1The person or people who; any person who: whoever wins should be guaranteed an Olympic place...
- Therefore, whoever offers the best level of service will win the most business.
- The IFS concludes that taxes would have gone up whoever won the last election, because it was the only way to balance the books.
- Both teams tend to have the attitude that whoever wins this one wins the tournament, even if last year they discovered otherwise.
1.1Regardless of who: come out, whoever you are...
- But whoever loses, regardless of whether it is by six goals or one, it will be devastating.
- Yet the sitter, whoever he might be, regards us with an air of quiet confidence.
- One of the most important things for America is to know who actually won, whoever that may be.
interrogative pronoun
Used for emphasis instead of ‘who’ in questions, typically expressing surprise or confusion: whoever would want to make up something like that?...
- In any case, why raise the question, for whoever in his right mind ever suggested that everything is false?
Usage
In emphatic use whoever is also written as two words: whoever/who ever does he think he is? See however (usage).
Rhymes
- modernise
- modernism
- Modernisme
- Modernismo
- modernist
- modernista
- modernistic
- modernistically
- modernity
- modernizable
- modernization
- modernization theory
- modernize
- modernizer
- modern jazz
- modern language
- modern Latin
- modernly
- modernness
- modern primitive
- Modern Standard Arabic
- modernus
- modest
- modestly
- modestness