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anything

an·y·thing
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [en-ee-thing]
    • /ˈɛn iˌθɪŋ/
    • /ˈeniθɪŋ/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [en-ee-thing]
    • /ˈɛn iˌθɪŋ/

Definitions of anything word

  • pronoun anything You use anything in statements with negative meaning to indicate in a general way that nothing is present or that an action or event does not or cannot happen. 3
  • pronoun anything You use anything in questions and conditional clauses to ask or talk about whether something is present or happening. 3
  • pronoun anything You can use anything before words which indicate the kind of thing you are talking about. 3
  • pronoun anything You use anything to emphasize a possible thing, event, or situation, when you are saying that it could be any one of a very large number of things. 3
  • pronoun anything You use anything in expressions such as anything near, anything close to and anything like to emphasize a statement that you are making. 3
  • pronoun anything When you do not want to be exact, you use anything to talk about a particular range of things or quantities. 3
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Origin of anything

First appearance:

before 900
One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; Middle English ani thing, eni thing, Old English ǣnig thing. See any, thing1

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Anything

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of Anything

anything popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 97% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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Synonyms for anything

noun anything

  • all — You use all to indicate that you are referring to the whole of a particular group or thing or to everyone or everything of a particular kind.
  • whatever — in any amount; to any extent: whatever merit the work has.

pronoun anything

All 3 Synonyms of anything

Antonyms for anything

noun anything

  • nada — nothing; zero; none: I have absolutely no motivation—zilch, zip, nada!
  • shutout — an act or instance of shutting out.
  • nought — nothing.
  • zero — the figure or symbol 0, which in the Arabic notation for numbers stands for the absence of quantity; cipher.
  • ought — a cipher (0); zero.
All 5 Antonyms of anything

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