anythingpronoun
uk/ˈen.i.θɪŋ/us/ˈen.i.θɪŋ/anything pronoun (SOMETHING)
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?
Do you have 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 over the weekend?" "I don't think we did anything much."
More examples
- There was so much cloud, we couldn't see anything.
- Did anything come of all those job applications?
- You didn't do anything wrong, - you should have a clear conscience .
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Something, anything, nothing, and everything
- across-the-board
- aught
- bazillion
- bugger
- bugger all idiom
- fresh
- none
- not a dicky bird idiom
- not a sausage idiom
- nothing
- nowt
- omni-
- sweet
- the whole bit idiom
- the whole lot idiom
- what with one thing and another idiom
- whit
- zero
- zilch
- zip
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anything pronoun (ANY OBJECT/SITUATION)
A1 any event, act, object, or situation:
He said I could order anything on the menu.
She could be anything (= any age) between 30 and 40.
More examples
- We christened him 'Slowcoach' because he took so long to do anything.
- They're not fabulously rich or anything, but they're quite comfortable.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Something, anything, nothing, and everything
- across-the-board
- aught
- bazillion
- bugger
- bugger all idiom
- fresh
- none
- not a dicky bird idiom
- not a sausage idiom
- nothing
- nowt
- omni-
- sweet
- the whole bit idiom
- the whole lot idiom
- what with one thing and another idiom
- whit
- zero
- zilch
- zip
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Idiom(s)
anything but
anything like
as... as anything
for anything (in the world)