however
/haʊˈɛvɚ/ adverb A2- Nevertheless; yet, still; in spite of that. · 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.
- In contrast. · The conference itself went very well. The party afterwards, however, was a disaster.
- Regardless of how; no matter how · 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.
- Regardless of how; regardless of the way in which. · Let me know when you've had your interview, however it goes.· However we do this, it isn't going to work.
- In any way in which; how. · She offered to help however she could.· Wear your hair however you want.
- In any way that one likes or chooses; in a haphazard or spontaneous way. · I don't care; just do it however.· Nothing was really planned; things just happened however.
- How ever: an emphatic form of how, used to ask in what manner. · I thought it was impossible. However were you able to do it?
From the library
“And then,” said Madame de Villefort, endeavoring by a struggle, and with effort, to get away from her thoughts, “however skilfully it is prepared, crime is always crime, and if it avoid human scrutiny, it does not escape the eye of God.
Mercédès, however, paid no heed to this explanation of her lover’s arrest.
Today, however, they were not playing.
However, those experienced in navigation saw plainly that if any accident had occurred, it was not to the vessel herself, for she bore down with all the evidence of being skilfully handled, the anchor a-cockbill, the jib-boom guys already eased off, and standing by the side of the pilot, who was steering the Pharaon towards the narrow entrance of the inner port, was a young man, who, with activity and vigilant eye, watched every motion of the ship, and repeated each direction of the pilot.
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