different between negates vs everybody

English

Verb

negates

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of negate

Anagrams

• agenest, geneats, sangeet

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

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