anything

CEFRA1

/ˈɛn.ɪ.θɪŋ/

pronoun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    pronoun

    Any object, event, or idea, no matter what.

  2. 02

    pronoun

    Extra detail

    Expressing an indefinite comparison.

Examples

  • I won't ask you anything else today.

  • It is too early for us to conclude anything.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
1

Also pronounced

  • /ˈen.i.θɪ̝ŋ/
  • /ˈɛn.i.θiŋ/

Deep Dive

pronoun

Extra meanings

  1. Someone or something of importance.

  2. Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatsoever; a thing of any kind; something or other.

verb

Extra meaning

  1. Used as a placeholder verb for any verb out of a set of related verbs.

More examples

In context

  • Let me know if there is anything I can do.

  • –I don't want to accompany him! –You never want to anything him!

  • He wasn't cooking, he wasn't sweeping, he wasn't anythinging!

Synonyms

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Origin

pronoun

From Middle English anything, enything, onything, from Late Old English aniþing, from earlier ǣniġ þing (literally “any thing”), equivalent to any + thing.