either way vs whatever

either way

adv
  • Regardless of what happens (out of two possible situations). 

whatever

adv
  • In what way; to what extent. 

  • At all; in any way; whatsoever. 

pron
  • Anything; thing(s) of unspecified kind, or no matter what kind; sometimes used to indicate that the speaker does not care about options. 

  • Anything that; all that. 

  • Regardless of anything that. 

  • What ever; emphasised form of 'what', used to ask which thing, event, circumstance, etc. 

det
  • What ever; emphatic form of 'what'. 

  • Regardless of the ... that; for any ... that. 

  • Any ... that; of no matter what type or kind that. 

  • Any; of no matter what type or kind. 

adj
  • Unexceptional or unimportant; blah. 

noun
  • Something whose exact kind or nature is unimportant; a thingy. 

intj
  • A holophrastic expression used to dismiss something that the speaker doesn't care about, doesn't think important, or doesn't want to consider or discuss any further. 

How often have the words either way and whatever occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )