The meaning of ANYTHING is any thing whatever : any such thing. How to use anything in a sentence.

Anyone, anybody and anything are indefinite pronouns. We use anyone, anybody and anything to refer to both an open, unlimited set of things or people and specific things or people.

1. in any way: he wasn't anything like his father. 2. anything but by no means; not in the least: she was anything but happy. 3. like anything (intensifier; usually euphemistic): he ran like anything.

You use anything to emphasize a possible thing, event, or situation, when you are saying that it could be any one of a very large number of things.

Sep 12, 2025 · From Middle English anything, enything, onything, from Late Old English aniþing, from earlier ǣniġ þing (literally “any thing”), equivalent to any +‎ thing.

Anything (The Cranberry Saw Us demo), by the band later named the Cranberries, 1990 Anything (The Damned album) or the title song (see below), 1986 Anything (Kinnie Starr album) or the …

adv. in any degree; to any extent; in any way; at all: Does it taste anything like chocolate? anything but, in no degree or respect; not in the least: The plans were anything but definite.