however
Part of speech: adv
conj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: manner
Etymology: From Middle English however, how-ever, how-evere; equivalent to how + ever. Compare howsoever.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Nevertheless; yet, still; in spite of that.
pos: adv
tags: conjunctive
not-comparable
examples: He told me not to do it. However, I did it anyway. / I did it anyway, however. / I, however, did it anyway.
She wanted to go; however, she decided against it.
I didn't argue with him; I still think, however, that he is wrong.
Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.
Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.
gloss: In contrast.
pos: adv
tags: conjunctive
not-comparable
examples: The conference itself went very well. The party afterwards, however, was a disaster.
gloss: Regardless of how; no matter how
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: However clear you think you've been, and however many questions you may've answered, there'll always remain some doubts.
Any rule of thumb, however true (it is), is useless unless you understand its underlying logic.
However much I study, I never get good grades.
Elinor, however little concerned in it, joined in their discourse; and Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book.
gloss: Regardless of how; regardless of the way in which.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Let me know when you've had your interview, however it goes.
However we do this, it isn't going to work.
Elinor, however little concerned in it, joined in their discourse; and Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book.
But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. Partly, this is a result of how online advertising has traditionally worked: advertisers pay for clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained.
gloss: In any way in which; how.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: She offered to help however she could.
Wear your hair however you want.
gloss: In any way that one likes or chooses; in a haphazard or spontaneous way.
pos: adv
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: I don't care; just do it however.
Nothing was really planned; things just happened however.
gloss: How ever: an emphatic form of how, used to ask in what manner.
pos: adv
tags: interrogative
not-comparable
examples: I thought it was impossible. However were you able to do it?
gloss: In any case, at any rate, at all events.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
examples: Our chief end and highest interest is happiness : And this is happiness to be freed from all (if it may) [or] however from the greatest evils.
gloss: But, yet, though, although.
pos: conj
tags: proscribed
examples: *She wanted to go, however she decided against it.
Derived words: however one slices it
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: все пак
roman: vse pak
lang: Esperanto
word: kiom ajn
lang: Finnish
word: kuinka tahansa
lang: Finnish
word: miten tahansa
lang: French
word: peu importe
lang: German
word: egal wie
lang: Hungarian
word: bármennyire
lang: Hungarian
word: akármennyire
lang: Hungarian
word: bármilyen
lang: Hungarian
word: akármilyen
lang: Irish
word: dá
lang: Macedonian
word: сепак
roman: sepak
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: uansett hvor
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: uten omsyn til hvor
lang: Spanish
word: comoquiera
lang: Spanish
word: comoquier
lang: Spanish
word: como sea
lang: Spanish
word: cuantoquiera que
lang: Spanish
word: cuanto sea
lang: Spanish
word: así como así
lang: Welsh
word: er mor
lang: Welsh
word: pa mor