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everything
English
Alternative forms
- (eye dialect, AAVE): e'rythin', e'rythang, e'rything, ev'ryting, ev'rythang, ev'ythang, ev'rything, ev'ythin', ev'ything, eve'ything, errythin,
- (eye dialect, Caribbean): everytin', everyting
- (eye dialect, Southern US): everytang
- (obsolete): evrything, evrythin
Etymology
every +? thing
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??v?i???/
- Hyphenation: eve?ry?thing or ev?e?ry?thing
Pronoun
everything
- (literally) All the things under discussion.
- (colloquial, hyperbolic) Many or most things.
- (colloquial) A state of well-being (from all parts of the whole).
- (colloquial) Considerable effort.
- It took everything in me to resist the temptation to skip work on my birthday.
- (colloquial) The most important thing.
- I can't believe I made it in time - timing is everything!
Synonyms
- all
Antonyms
- nothing
Derived terms
- everything and the kitchen sink
- everything but the kitchen sink
- everything else
- everything under the sun
- if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail
- leave everything on the road
- talk about everything under the sun
- theory of everything
- timing is everything
Pages starting with “everything”.
Related terms
- anything
- every
- everybody
- everyone
- everywhere
- nothing
- something
Translations
everything From the web:
- what everything is made of
- what everything on a pokemon card means
- what everything on a check means
- what everything does in minecraft
- what everything mean
- what everything means on robinhood
- what everything on the periodic table means
- what everything means on a driver's license
anything
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /??n.i.???/
- (Ireland) IPA(key): /?æ.ni.???/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??.n?.???/, /??.ni.???/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /??.n?.???/
- Hyphenation: an?y?thing
Etymology 1
From Middle English anything, enything, onything, from Late Old English aniþing, from earlier ?ni? þing (literally “any thing”), equivalent to any +? thing.
Pronoun
anything
- Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; a thing of any kind; something or other.
- Synonym: aught
- (with “as” or “like”) Expressing an indefinite comparison.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
anything (plural anythings)
- Someone or something of importance.
Related terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English anything, enything, onything, onythynge, from Old English ?ni?e þinga, ?n?i þinga (literally “by any of things”), from ?ni?e, instrumental form of ?ni? (“any”) + þinga, genitive plural of þing (“thing”).
Adverb
anything (not comparable)
- In any way, any extent or any degree.
- That isn't anything like a car.
- She's not anything like as strong as me.
References
- anything in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- Thingyan
anything From the web:
- what anything means
- what anything that will harm the environment
- what anything else
- what's anything to the zero power
- what's anything to the power of 0
- what's anything to the power of 1
- what's anything goes about
- anything but meaning
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