whatever

  1. Adjective.  (colloquial) Unexceptional or unimportant; blah.
  2. Determiner.  No matter which; for any.
  3. Determiner.  (context, relative) Anything that.
  4. Interjection.  (colloquial, dismissive) A holophrastic expression used discourteously to indicate that the speaker does not consider the matter worthy of further discussion.
  5. Pronoun.  Anything; used to indicate that the speaker does not care about options.

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