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Definition of Anyhow
1. Adverb. Used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement. "But at any rate he got a knighthood for it"
2. Adverb. In any way whatsoever. "Get it done anyway you can"
Definition of Anyhow
1. adv. In any way or manner whatever; at any rate; in any event.
Definition of Anyhow
1. Adverb. (context: manner) In any way or manner whatever. ¹
2. Adverb. (context: conjunctive) In any case. Used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Anyhow
1. in any way [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anyhow
Literary usage of Anyhow
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"They believed ma good and a bad spirit, but prayed only to the bad spirit, on
the ground that the other would not injure them anyhow. DUMONT, Hist. ..."
2. Studies of a Biographer by Sir Leslie Stephen (1902)
"anyhow, Godwin stuck to it for a time, and resisted the ensnaring arguments of
Arians and Arminians. A glimpse of the social stratum which enjoyed such ..."
3. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle (1883)
"anyhow, when one can only ray out darkness, one had best clap an extinguisher on
oneself. And so God bless you! Sincerely yours, JANE W. CARLYLE. ..."
4. The Dictionary of English History edited by Frederick Sanders Pulling, Sidney Low (1896)
"anyhow, the sixth century saw a Celtic race still supreme in these regions, and,
by its possession of the lower Severn valley, in communication with the ..."
5. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle: Annotated by Thomas Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1903)
"I send you a pair of card-racks from the Falls of Niagara,—more curious than
beautiful; but you will give them a place in your drawingroom anyhow for the ..."
6. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1903)
"I send you a pair of card-racks from the Falls of Niagara,—more curious than
beautiful; but you will give them a place in your drawingroom anyhow for the ..."
7. The Writings of Lafcadio Hearn by Lafcadio Hearn (1922)
"old as the dance — as old as Phidias anyhow? ... I suppose this is absurd, but
wish it was n't. TO HE KREHBIEL NEW ORLEANS, 1887 DEAR KREHBIEL, ..."
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