Anyone vs Whoever - What's the difference?
anyone | whoever |
Any person; anybody.
* (George Bernard Shaw)
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, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=8
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, title= (An emphatic form of) who .
Whatever person or persons.
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As pronouns the difference between anyone and whoever
is that anyone is any person; anybody while whoever is whatever person or persons.As an adverb whoever is
An emphatic form of who.anyone
English
Alternative forms
* any onePronoun
(English Pronouns)- The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
George Goodchild
Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}
Synonyms
* anybodywhoever
English
Adverb
(-)Pronoun
(en-pron)- Whoever thought up that stupid idea?