anything
Plural: anythings
Pron
- Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatsoever; a thing of any kind; something or other.
- Expressing an indefinite comparison.
Noun
- A thing of any kind, whatever it may be.
- Someone or something of importance.
Verb
- Used as a placeholder verb for any verb out of a set of related verbs.
Adv
- In any way, any extent or any degree.
Examples
- He wasn't cooking, he wasn't sweeping, he wasn't anythinging!
- He would have done anything for a blank tile.
- I would not do it for anything.
- She's not anything like as strong as me.
- That isn't anything like a car.
- –I don't want to accompany him! –You never want to anything him!
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English anything, enything, onything, from Late Old English aniþing, from earlier ǣniġ þing (literally “any thing”), equivalent to any + thing.
Synonyms
Scrabble Score: 15
anything: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordanything: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
anything: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 16
anything: valid Words With Friends Word