different between everything vs everybody

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

1. (literally) All the things under discussion.

2. (colloquial, hyperbolic) Many or most things.

3. (colloquial) A state of well-being (from all parts of the whole).

4. (colloquial) Considerable effort.

   It took everything in me to resist the temptation to skip work on my birthday.

5. (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

English

Alternative forms

• arrybody (Bermuda)
• e'rybody
• everbody
• ever'body
• everybuddy
• every body

Etymology

every +? body

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??v?ib?di/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??v?ib?di/, /??v?ib?di/
  • (unstressed) IPA^(key): /??v?ib?di /
• Hyphenation: eve?ry?bod?y

Pronoun

everybody (indefinite pronoun)

1. All people.

   • Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.

Usage notes

• Everybody takes a singular verb: Is everybody here?; Everybody has heard of it. However, similar to what occurs with collective or group nouns like crowd or team, sometimes an antecedent of everybody is used as a plural: Everybody was laughing at first, but then they all stopped.

Synonyms

• everyone

Antonyms

• nobody, no one
• Logically negates to not everybody.

Derived terms

• everybody and his cousin
• everybody and their brother
• everybody who is anybody

Related terms

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