English - Etymology

any +‎ thing

English - Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈɛniθɪŋ/
• (Ireland) IPA^(key): /ˈæniθɪŋ/
• Hyphenation: an‧y‧thing

English - Adverb

anything (not comparable)

1. In any way, any extent or any degree.

   That isn't anything like a car.

English - Pronoun

anything

1. Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught.

   I would not do it for anything.

   • 1893, Walter Besant, The Ivory Gate, Prologue:

     Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language […] his clerks […] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.

2. (with “as” or “like”) Expressing an indefinite comparison.

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English - Noun

anything (plural anythings)

1. Someone or something of importance.

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English - References

• anything in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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