anything

名词 n. 动词 v. 副词 adv. 代词 pron.
中文释义
英 /ˈɛn.ɪ.θɪŋ/|/ˈɛn.i.θɪŋ/    美 /ˈɛn.i.θɪŋ/|/ˈen.i.θɪ̝ŋ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone or something of importance.
    — How long does it take to turn you actors into good anythings?
动词 v.
  1. Used as a placeholder verb for any verb out of a set of related verbs. ambitransitive,colloquial
    — He wasn't cooking, he wasn't sweeping, he wasn't anythinging!
副词 adv.
  1. In any way, any extent or any degree. not-comparable
    — That isn't anything like a car.
代词 pron.
  1. Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatsoever; a thing of any kind; something or other.
    — I would not do it for anything.
  2. Expressing an indefinite comparison.
    — Perhaps it was this atmosphere of misplacedness and loneliness as much as anything which led her to speak to him one evening in early summer when the office had closed.

词形变化

any thing alternative,archaic anythings plural any thing alternative,archaic anythings present,singular,third-person anythinging participle,present anythinged participle,past anythinged past any thing alternative,archaic any thing alternative,archaic

词汇关系

衍生词
anythingarian anything but anything else anything goes anythingism anything is possible anything that moves are you doing anything tomorrow as anything ask me anything don't do anything I wouldn't do if anything like anything not much of anything or anything up to anything

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ís?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Indo-European *h₁oy-no-kós
Proto-Germanic *ainagaz
Proto-West Germanic *ainag
Old English ǣniġ
Proto-Indo-European *tenk-?
Proto-Indo-European *tenkóm
Proto-Germanic *þingą
Proto-West Germanic *þing
Old English þing
Old English aniþing
Middle English anything
English anything
From Middle English anything, enything, onything, from Late Old English aniþing, from earlier ǣniġ þing (literally “any thing”), equivalent to any + thing.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ís?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Indo-European *h₁oy-no-kós
Proto-Germanic *ainagaz
Proto-West Germanic *ainag
Old English ǣniġ
Old English ǣniġe
Proto-Indo-European *tenk-?
Proto-Indo-European *tenkóm
Proto-Germanic *þingą
Proto-West Germanic *þing
Old English þing
Old English þinga
Old English ǣniġe þinga
Middle English anything
English anything
From Middle English anything, enything, onything, onythynge, from Old English ǣniġe þinga, ǣnġi þinga (literally “by any of things”), from ǣniġe, instrumental form of ǣniġ (“any”) + þinga, genitive plural of þing (“thing”).
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