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Meaning of ANYTHING

Pronunciation:  'enee`thing

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 Definition: [n]  a thing of any kind; "do you have anything to declare?"
 
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
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  1. \A"ny*thing\, n.
    1. Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of
       any kind; something or other; aught; as, I would not do it
       for anything.
             Did you ever know of anything so unlucky? --A.
                                                   Trollope.
             They do not know that anything is amiss with them.
                                                   --W. G.
                                                   Sumner.
    2. Expressing an indefinite comparison; -- with as or like.
       [Colloq. or Lowx]
             I fear your girl will grow as proud as anything.
                                                   --Richardson.
    Note: Any thing, written as two words, is now commonly used
          in contradistinction to any person or anybody. Formerly
          it was also separated when used in the wider sense.
          ``Necessity drove them to undertake any thing and
          venture any thing.'' --De Foe.
    {Anything but}, not at all or in any respect. ``The battle
       was a rare one, and the victory anything but secure.''
       --Hawthorne.
    {Anything like}, in any respect; at all; as, I can not give
       anything like a fair sketch of his trials.
    
  2. \A"ny*thing\, adv.
    In any measure; anywise; at all.
          Mine old good will and hearty affection towards you is
          not . . . anything at all quailed.       --Robynson
                                                   (More's
                                                   Utopia).
    
 

 

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