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"
Exact synonyms: Anyway

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

any old nook or cranny
any old thing
any other business
any port in a storm
any press is good press
any time
any way one slices it
anybodies
anybody
anybody else
anybuddy
anycast
anycasting
anyfink
anyhoo
anyhow (current term)
anymore
anyolite
anyon
anyone
anyone's guess
anyone else
anyones
anyonic
anyons
anyplace
anyplace else
anyroad
anythin'
anything

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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