Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913 Wherewithal /wĕr'-wĭth-ôlˌ/ · Where·with·al · IPA /ˈwɛɚ.wɪ.ðɔl/ 01 adv. & n. Wherewith. 1. Wherewith. “Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way?” — Ps. cxix. 9. “[The builders of Babel], still with vain design, New Babels, had they wherewithal, would build.” — Milton.