ANYHOW Synonyms: 66 Similar and Opposite Words

anyhow

adverb

ˈe-nē-ˌhau̇

Definition of anyhow next

as in whatever

in spite of everything even though it's raining, I'm going to the golf course anyhow

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Relevance

as in randomly

without definite aim, direction, rule, or method clothes that were hurriedly stuffed anyhow into the suitcase

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as in anyway

whatever else is done or is the case your mother called and said you don't need to stop by, but I think you should anyhow

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Recent Examples of anyhow Marche feared that ChatGPT-3 meant the end of freshman composition papers, but that’s a pathetic and moribund genre anyhow. —

Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026 Williams wasn’t an elite pass rusher, not yet anyhow. —

Cam Inman, Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2026 But Starmer gripped the American President close, anyhow. —

Sam Knight, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2025 Indoor pesticides are not recommended because the mites will dry out in a day or two inside your home anyhow. —

Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 10 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for anyhow

Recent Examples of Synonyms for anyhow

Adverb

Wants to be sure her friends notice her new whatever-she's-wearing.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 8 May 2021
And so the Administration of Harvard, by its own admission, has taken no action whatever.

— William F. Buckley Jr., National Review, 23 Oct. 2017