anything
pronoun (SOMETHING) /ˈen.i.θɪŋ/Definition
A1 used in questions and negatives to mean 'something': Is there anything I can do to help? Was there anything else you wanted to say or is that it? Have you got anything less expensive? Let me know if anything happens, won't you. I didn't know anything about computers till I started this job. I was looking for a birthday present for my mother but I didn't find anything suitable. Did you notice anything strange about him? Spending Christmas with him and his brother - I can't imagine anything worse! If he eats anything with wheat in it he's very sick. "What did you do at the weekend?" "I don't think we did anything much."Something, anything, nothing, and everything
(Definition of anything pronoun (SOMETHING) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- General words for size and amount
- Increasing and intensifying
- Large in number or quantity
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- Maximum and minimum
- Medium-sized
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- Someone, anyone, no one or everyone
- Things collected in lines or rings
- Things remaining
- Too much and unnecessary
- Unavailable and inaccessible
- Unlimited
- Words meaning small pieces and amounts
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Synonyms and related words:
- anything pronoun (ANY OBJECT/SITUATION)
- caboodle noun
- diddly noun
- everything but/except the kitchen sink idiom
- everything pronoun
- fresh adjective (RECENT)
- naught number (NOTHING)
- not a sausage idiom
- nothing pronoun
- nought number (NOTHING)
- nowt pronoun
- omni- prefix
- owt pronoun
- shebang noun
- thing noun (IDEA/EVENT)
- what with one thing and another idiom
- whit noun
- zero adjective
- zilch noun
- zip noun (NOTHING)
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