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Anymore

Definition: Anymore

Anymore

Adverb

1. At the present or from now on; usually used with a negative; "Alice doesn't live here anymore"; "the children promised not to quarrel any more".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "anymore" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references)


Synonym: Anymore

Synonym: any longer (adv). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Anymore

Specialty definitions using "anymore": audidid you use up all the money? / handi la-first generation languagereturn from interruptYour Cut. (references)

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Modern Usage: Anymore

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I don't think we can be friends anymore. (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

That's right, we don't have to pretend anymore, we leave, we leave tonight (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce)

Not anymore! (The Pink Panther Strikes Again; writing credit: Blake Edwards and Frank Waldman.)

I can't control her, anymore than I can control the weather. (Sweet Home Alabama; writing credit: C. Jay Cox)

I couldn't love you anymore if you were my own son. But the fact of the matter is, you're a putz! (While You Were Sleeping; writing credit: Daniel G. Sullivan; Fredric LeBow)

Lyrics

Just aren't feelings anymore (And Our Feelings; performing artist: Babyface; writing credit: Babyface, Daryl Simmons)

It's so funny how we don't talk anymore, (We Don't Talk Anymore; performing artist: Cliff Richard)

But you don't live there anymore. (Missing; performing artist: Everything But The Girl; writing credit: Ben Watt)

Not much anymore (Yesterday's Songs; performing artist: Neil Diamond; writing credit: Neil Diamond)

And I ain't marchin' anymore (I Ain't Marching Anymore; performing artist: Phil Ochs)

Clever

Work: It isn't just for sleeping anymore. (references; author: unknown)

Beer: It's not just for breakfast anymore. (references; author: unknown)

You can never understand the true value of something until you don't have it anymore. (references; author: unknown)

I don't do drugs anymore 'cause I find I get the same effect just standing up really fast. (references; author: unknown)

There are two kinds of people in life: people who like their jobs, and people who don't work here anymore. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)

2El' Atrash Family Doesn't Live Here Anymore (2001)

Come Over for Family Dinner Let's Not Fight Anymore (2001)

Tears Don't Come Here Anymore (2000)

I Don't Hate Las Vegas Anymore (1994)

Song Titles

I Ain't Marching Anymore (performing artist: Phil Ochs)

Love Don't Live Here Anymore (performing artist: Rose Royce)

Can't Cry Anymore (performing artist: Sheryl Crow)

You Don't Want Me Anymore (performing artist: Steel Breeze)

Anymore (performing artist: Teresa Brewer)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Anymore

DomainTitle

Books

  • Love Don't Live Here Anymore (reference)

  • You're Not a Kid Anymore When... (reference)

  • You're Not in Mom's Kitchen Anymore!: College Cooking for the Dorming Gourmet (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Anymore

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

My Baby Brother has AIDS and Now he's too Sick to play with me anymore... : Daddy, Why?. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Guess I won't be needing this anymore!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Ach -- well there's not much for a fellow to do anymore anyways!. Credit: Library of Congress.

It's getting so you can't get a good night's sleep anymore. Credit: Library of Congress.

Don't mind Father -- nobody does anymore. Credit: Library of Congress.

Wheat in the shock. Garfield County, Washington. It is unusual to see wheat in shock anymore since the combines are most generally used. This particular wheat was to be used for cattle feed. Credit: Library of Congress.

I can't see my flag anymore : I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Anymore

AuthorQuotation

Elbert Hubbard

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Anymore

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Most babies are more comfortable after having an ostomy because they can pass gas more easily and aren't constipated anymore. (references)

Business

There are also some additives and aromas, which have been made using genetically treated organisms, but where this utilization is not verifiable anymore. (references)

Economic History

Austria

Austria has no foreign trade zones anymore. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Anymore

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Dennis Miller

People don't even try to get me to come to their parties anymore.

Gary Condit

You know, there's good and bad about that watch box thing. I can't throw the trash away at my house anymore. I happen to do the dishes, but I can't throw the trash away.

Martha Stewart

Well, I've always been observant and I always see things sort of before other people see them. So, that's just my nature. I'm always looking around, and watching, and observing. So I don't find myself doing it anymore than I used to.

Rosemary Altea

There are so many people out there who want to know more about this. So I'd just like to mention, if anybody wants to know anymore or some of the people that I've already spoken to, they can connect me on my Web site.

Rush Limbaugh

Understand that the so-called rich are about the only ones paying taxes anymore.

Samantha Geimer

I could be wrong. I don't know who they are, you know, anymore, but I was getting the definite feeling that they didn't believe what I was saying.

Sylvia Browne

Oh, yeah, and then the person won't ride her anymore. You'd be surprised at how much power your mind has. See, a person can only have power over us if we let them.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Anymore

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Bill Clinton

1993-2001But in this digital economy, it is not true anymore.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Anymore

"Anymore" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Anymore" is used about 292 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)100%29217,014

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Anymore

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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per Day

anymore

25

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5

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24

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5

anymore lyrics travis tritt

20

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5

love don t live here anymore

15

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5

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11

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5

don t you love me anymore

10

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5

anymore can feeling fight i t this

10

i dont love you anymore

4

alice doesn t live here anymore

9

anymore can feeling fight lyrics t this

4

i don t love you anymore

9

ain anymore gonna shine sun t

4

anymore cant friend i

9

anymore dont i love lyrics

4

don t get around much anymore

8

anymore don garden i know lyrics savage t

4

ain anymore i marchin t

8

anymore i love lyrics m not supposed

4

anymore can feeling fight t this

8

anymore cant friend i lyrics

4

anymore love lyrics not supposed

7

anymore can friend i just t

4

dont you love me anymore

7

anymore can i it t take

4

anymore love not supposed

7

mary janes not a virgin anymore

3

anymore can feeling fight i lyrics t this

6

anymore in jean room there those

3

anymore travis tritt

6

anymore don here live love lyrics t

3

anymore lyrics

6

aint anymore i marchin

3

don t get around much anymore lyrics

5

anymore isn love lyrics t this zoe

3

anymore can i t that

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Anymore

Language Translations for "anymore"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

(Again). (various references)

   

Flemish

  

meer. (various references)

   

German

  

noch mehr (more), noch etwas (anything else, madam?), nicht mehr/weiterhin, mehr (better, else, further, increase, more, on, overplus, some more, times). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

többé (more). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

此の上 (above or beyond this, furthermore). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

"のうえ (above or beyond this, furthermore). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

" 이상. (various references)

   

Luxembourgish

  

méi (more). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

anymoreay

   

Russian 

  

больше (any more, more, no longer, no more). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ne više (no longer, not anymore). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ya (already, before, beforehand, by now, now, whether, yet), nunca más (never again, nevermore). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

längre (farther, further, longer, longish). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ตั้งแต่เ"ี๋ยวนี้ (ใช้ในเชิงลบ). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

artık (at that, discard, dreg, dregs, dross, effluent, fag end, hog-wash, leftover, no longer, no more, refuse, remainder, remnant, residual, residue, rest, scraps, shoddy, spoils, tag end, waste), daha fazla (further, more, upward, upward of, upwards, upwards of), bundan sonra (after this, from now on, henceforth, henceforward, henceforwards, hereafter, hereupon, whereupon). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Anymore

Misspellings

"Anymore" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Anambra, animore, animorum, Ayamara, aynhoreh, ayore, Enymore, Eymore, Kanyoro, namoore, Namoree, Nantmor, onimode. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Anymore"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "anymore" (pronounced e'nēmô"r)
3-m ô" rMor, more.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Anymore

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-m-n-o-r-y"

-1 letter: enamor, moaner, yeoman.

-2 letters: anomy, enorm, manor, mayor, meany, money, morae, moray, namer, onery, ramen, rayon, reman, roman, yamen, yearn.

-3 letters: aeon, aero, aery, amen, army, earn, eyra, mane, mano, many, mare, mayo, mean, meno, moan, mony, mora, more, morn, myna, name, nary, near, nema, noma, nome, norm, omen, omer, oyer, ream, roam.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-m-n-o-r-y"
 

+1 letter: aeronomy, monetary, overmany, yeomanry.

 

+2 letters: embryonal, manometry, momentary, monastery, monolayer, myoneural, oysterman.

 

+3 letters: amendatory, anemometry, commandery, commentary, emblazonry, everywoman, journeyman, lampoonery, mineralogy, monetarily, moneymaker, monolayers, necromancy, yeomanries.

 

+4 letters: actinometry, aerodynamic, aminopyrine, clergywoman, craniometry, documentary, dynamometer, dynamometry, embryonated, freemasonry, hymenoptera, momentarily, moneymakers, nonmonetary, normatively, oneiromancy, overpayment, pyromancies, salmonberry, trypanosome, unmemorably.

 

+5 letters: aerodynamics, aminopyrines, ceremonially, chlorenchyma, commendatory, compensatory, condemnatory, contemporary, cytomembrane, demonstrably, dynamometers, dynamometric, dysmenorrhea, eleemosynary, gyromagnetic, hydromancies, hymenopteran, impersonally, imponderably, intercompany, laryngectomy, magnetometry, membranously, meridionally, neuroanatomy, ornamentally, overpayments, pancreozymin, predominancy, pyridoxamine, remuneratory, stonemasonry, trypanosomes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Anymore


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 6E 79 6D 6F 72 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    -.    -.--.    --    ---    .-.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01101110 01111001 01101101 01101111 01110010 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#110 &#121 &#109 &#111 &#114 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006E 0079 006D 006F 0072 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35809179818471

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Anymore"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Chinese

字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinesisch, kínai, チフス菌 , チャイニーズ , 중국, китайский, китаец, kineski jezik, kineski, chino, kinesisk, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin

Flemish

佛蘭'語 , 佛兰'语, flandrisch, flämisch, flamand nyelv, flamand, "랑"르, фламандский, flamanski jezik, flamanski, flamenco, flamländsk, flaman diline ait, flaman, flaman dili

German

wörterbuch, Übersetzung德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , deutsch, Deutsche, német, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , 독일, немецкий, germanski, alemán, tysk, าษาเยอรมัน, เยอรมัน, alman

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , Ungar, magyar, 헝가리, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, ungrare, ชาวฮังการี, macarca, macar

Japanese Kanji

辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , japaner, japanisch, japán, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", 일본, японский, японец, japanski, japanski jezik, japanac, japonés, japansk, คนญี่ปุ่น, าษาญี่ปุ่น, เกี่ยวกับญี่ปุ่น, Japonca

Japanese Katakana

じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , japaner, japanisch, japán, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", 일본, японский, японец, japanski, japanski jezik, japanac, japonés, japansk, คนญี่ปุ่น, าษาญี่ปุ่น, เกี่ยวกับญี่ปุ่น, Japonca

Korean

사 , 의, 번역韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , koreanisch, Koreaner, koreai, 한국, кореец, корейский, korejski, korejski jezik, koreanac, coreano, koreansk, ชาวเกาหลี, kore'li

Luxembourgish

lëtzebuergesch

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, Russe, russisch, orosz, ロシア語 , ロシア", 러시아, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, ryss, ชาวรัสเซีย, Rusça

Serbo-Croatian

leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje塞"维亚-克罗地亚语, 塞爾維亞克羅地亞語 , serbokroatisch, 세르보크로아티아, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk, เกี่ยวกับ าษาเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย, าษาหลักของชาวเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducción西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, spanisch, spanyol, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , 스페인, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca

Swedish

ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättning瑞典語 , 瑞典语, schwedisch, svéd, スウェーデン語 , スウェーデン", 스웨덴, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, เกี่ยวกับคน าษาและวั'นธรรมของประเทศสวีเ"น, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí

Thai

พจนานุกรม泰國 , 泰文 , 泰 , 泰語 , 泰国, thailändisch, Thailänder, たい", 타이 말, tailandés, thailändare, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย, Tayland, Taylandlı, Tayland Dili, Tai Dili

Turkish

sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme土耳其語 , 土耳其, türkisch, török, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türkçe, türk

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translation英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , englisch, angol, 영국, englesch, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, engelsk, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Familiar
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Quotations: Spoken
10. Quotations: Speeches
11. Usage Frequency
12. Expressions: Internet
13. Translations: Modern
14. Derivations
15. Rhymes
16. Anagrams
17. Orthography
18. Bibliography


  

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