anyway

[en-ee-wey] /ˈɛn iˌweɪ/

adverb

in any case; anyhow; nonetheless; regardless:

Whether you like it or not, I'm going anyway.

(used to continue or resume the thread of a story or account):

Anyway, we finally found a plumber who could come right over.

Origin

1150-1200; Middle English ani wei. See any, way

Usage note

The adverb anyway is spelled as one word: It was snowing hard, but we drove to the play anyway. The two-word phrase any way means “in any manner”: Finish the job any way you choose. If the words “in the” can be substituted for “any,” the two-word phrase is called for: Finish the job in the way you choose. If the substitution cannot be made, the spelling is anyway.

Examples from the web for anyway

Proponents say that illegal means illegal, and they shouldn't be here anyway.
Not in the traditional meet-the-public and kiss-the-babies sense, anyway.
And even if programs refuse to cooperate, the council has a number of alternative strategies for rating them anyway.
And unless you have diabetes, blood sugar remains generally stable anyway.
Not that it matters, as it isn't really what the sentence you quoted was about anyway.
Subscribe anyway and donate your citrus to a food bank.
Merry go rounds are on their way out of parks anyway.
And many pragmatists feel that tenure is no longer a guarantee anyway.
Wendy- you ask if there is anyway elephants can be bred to be tuskless.
We left a little memorial card and some flowers anyway.

British Dictionary definitions for anyway

anyway

/ˈɛnɪˌweɪ/

adverb

in any case; at any rate; nevertheless; anyhow

in a careless or haphazard manner

Usually any way. in any manner; by any means

Word Origin and History for anyway

adv.

1560s, any way "in any manner;" variant any ways (with adverbial genitive) attested from c.1560. One-word form predominated from 1830s. As an adverbial conjunction, from 1859. Middle English in this sense had ani-gates "in any way, somehow" (c.1400).