adverb
- Used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement.
- usage: "Anyhow, he is dead now"; "I think they're asleep; anyhow, they're quiet"; "I don't know what happened to it; anyway, it's gone"; "anyway, there is another factor to consider"; "I don't know how it started; in any case, there was a brief scuffle"; "in any event, the government faced a serious protest"; "but at any rate he got a knighthood for it"
- synonyms: anyhow, anyway, anyways, at any rate, in any event
- Making an additional point; anyway.
- usage: "I don't want to go to a restaurant; besides, we can't afford it"; "she couldn't shelter behind him all the time and in any case he wasn't always with her"
- synonyms: besides
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