everything
pronoun /ˈev.ri.θɪŋ/Definition
A2 all things: You can't blame him for everything. He's obsessed with Kylie Minogue and collects anything and everything connected with her. Jane's been unfaithful to Jim three times, but he still loves her in spite of everything. Money isn't everything (= the most important thing). His children are everything to him (= the most important part of his life). Have you been crying? Is everything all right? The thieves took everything. We did everything we could to save her but she died. We shall do everything necessary to bring the murderer to justice. They're very busy with their new house and everything (= all the things connected with it).Something, anything, nothing, and everything
(Definition of everything pronoun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Also, extra, and in addition
- Augmenting and supplementing
- Available and accessible
- Becoming and making smaller or less
- Becoming bigger
- Big and quite big
- Enlarging and inflating
- Enormous
- Enough
- Extremely small
- General words for size and amount
- Increasing and intensifying
- Large in number or quantity
- Masses and large amounts of things
- Maximum and minimum
- Medium-sized
- Merely and barely
- Plenty and abundant
- Scarce, inadequate and not enough
- Small
- Small in number and quantity
- Some and quite
- 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)
- anything pronoun (SOMETHING)
- caboodle noun
- diddly noun
- everything but/except the kitchen sink idiom
- 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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