however

Definition

  • adverb: to whatever degree or extent
  • conjunction: in whatever manner or way that
  • used when you are saying something that is different from or contrasts with a previous statement
  • synonyms: nevertheless, at least, yet

Examples

  • I'd like to go; 'however', I'd better not. [=I'd like to go, but I should not]

  • The forecast is bad. It's possible, 'however', that conditions could improve.

  • She couldn't convince him, 'however' hard [=no matter how hard] she tried.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Pay them. Get the old bombardier a drink on the house. - What do you got for me? - Uniform clipped him for suspended license. However, he's a subject of an open investigation... More than one. He's one of Costello's. We're getting a warrant. Can't get an address off him. He paged his lawyer but (..)
    2006 The Departed
  • (..) Last I heard he was married to a -year-old boy, living on a beach in Thailand. Fucking family's dug into the Southie projects like ticks. Three-decker men at best. You, however, grew up... ...on the North Shore, huh? Well, la-di-fucking-da. You were kind of a double kid, I bet, right? (..)
    2006 The Departed