anything

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

anythings

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

anything

past (v2)

anythinged

past participle (v3)

anythinged

present participle

anythinging

3rd person singular

anythings

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.Someone or something of importance.

   • How long does it take to turn you actors into good anythings?
   • So we tried not to talk about first or second anythings until our meeting with the rabbi.

Pron

Pronoun

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A word that replaces or refers to a noun or noun phrase.

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

   • I would not do it for anything.

2. 2.Expressing an indefinite comparison.

   • Perhaps it was this atmosphere of misplacedness and loneliness as much as anything which led her to speak to him one evening in early summer when the office had closed.

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

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

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

Adverb

Adverb

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A word that modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb, or a clause.

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

   • That isn't anything like a car.
   • She's not anything like as strong as me.

Overall

Very common· #245

By learning goal

Everyday conversation

Very common

General reading & writing

Very common

Academic

Rare

Literature

Common