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Definition: Anything |
AnythingNoun1. A thing of any kind; "do you have anything to declare?". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "anything" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ignorance | Adverb: ignorantly; Adjective: unawares; for anything, for aught one knows; not that one knows. |
Indifference | Phrase: I couldn't care less, I could care less; anything will do; es macht nichts. |
Possibility | Phrase: misericordia Domini inter pontem et fontent; " the glories of the Possible are ours "; anything is possible; in theory possible, but in practise unlikely. |
Smallness | Trifle; (unimportant thing); mere nothing, next to nothing; hardly anything; just enough to swear by; the shadow of a shade. |
Unimportance | Nothing, nothing to signify, nothing worth speaking of, nothing particular, nothing to boast of, nothing to speak of; small matter, no great matter, trifling matter; Adjective:; mere joke, mere nothing; hardly anything; scarcely anything; small beer, cipher; no great shakes, peu de chose; child's play, kinderspiel. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Anything |
| English words defined with "anything": Anything but, Anything like. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "anything": Good for Anything ♦ I didn't change anything!. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "anything": Whatso. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | A commercial for how normal we are when we're anything but. (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball) Touch me and that hand will never touch anything again (The Matrix Reloaded; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski) I like anything that don't talk (Sleepers; writing credit: Barry Levinson) They'll print anything these days (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein) Oh, you didn't do anything to meor any other girl for that matter (Sweet Home Alabama; writing credit: C. Jay Cox) | |
Lyrics | Anything for you (Anything; performing artist: Jay-Z) And I would do anything for love, (I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That); performing artist: Meat Loaf) But you don't bring me anything but down (Anything But Down; performing artist: Sheryl Crow) Don't spare me anything troubling (Trouble Me; performing artist: 10,000 Maniacs) Well, before you do anything rash, baby, listen to this (Everybody Plays the Fool; performing artist: Aaron Neville) | |
Clever | Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can. (references; author: Mark Twain) I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap. (references; author: Bob Hope) Honk If Anything Falls Off. (references; author: unknown) Anything not nailed down is a cat toy. (references; author: unknown) He who stands for nothing, falls for anything. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Anything You Can Do (1971) Eat Anything (1971) Anything Once (1969) How to Do Anything at All with Girls (1968) Ready for Anything! (1968) | |
Song Titles | If You Can Do Anything Else (performing artist: George Strait) Anything For You (performing artist: Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine) I'd Do Anything For You (performing artist: Incorporated Thang Bang) Anything (performing artist: Jay-Z) I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That) (performing artist: Meat Loaf) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | If springtime on Earth were anything like it will be on Uranus, we would be experiencing waves ... Credit: NASA. |  | Fire ants will do anything to resist attack by the tiny phorid fly measuring only about one-sixteenthe of an inch. A highly specific natural enemy, the female pierces a fire ant's head and releases an enzyme that later decapitates it. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Sanford Porter.. |
 | At First He Was Sure He'd Never Become A Heroin Addict. : Now He's Not Sure He'll Ever Be Anything Else. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Doctor Doctor- have you got anything for smallpots? : You don't need a pill for every ill- let the Doctor decide. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | He would work at anything, night and day, like a madman!. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | It beats anything for a sinking spell. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | We won't let anything come between us -- will we?. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Heard anything from your friend yet?. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | To scrap campaign. It has been many years since these veteran fire engines clanged down the street manned by doughty firefighters, but they are now getting into action in a fight far exceeding anything in their previous long career. Contributed to a salva. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Shenandoah Valley. Ellison Loth, youthful executive of the Cavalier Theater at Waynesboro, Virginia, who is vice-chairman of the Augusta county defense committee. "I want to help," says he, "but I don't know anything about shops". Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "A child from Thailand" by Luigi Belli Commentary: "This is a thai child that i met on a trip in northern thailand. <br>He tried to sell me anything he can, and i took this photo because of its "uniqueness"." | "New Mosque 1660 A.D." by William J. Ray Commentary: "Anything looks good in the light of the setting sun. It has always intrigued me that this mosque, called New Mosque, was completed in the 1600s." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Johannes Kepler | Nature uses as little as possible of anything. |
Katherine Fullerton Gerould | You can bear anything if it isn't your own fault. |
Konosuke Matsushita. | Anything worth doing is worth 10%. |
Oscar Wilde | A poet can survive anything but a misprint. |
| I can believe anything provided it is incredible. | |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | No one does anything from a single motive. |
Thomas Middleton | Anything for a Quiet Life. |
Voltaire | Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. |
Walt Whitman | If anything is sacred the human body is sacred. |
William Ellery Channing | Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | If one who has borrowed from the Jews any sum, great or small, die before that loan be repaid, the debt shall not bear interest while the heir is under age, of whomsoever he may hold; and if the debt fall into our hands, we will not take anything except the principal sum contained in the bond. (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | According to this, bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | But if the dangers of war and tyranny are removed, there is no doubt that science and co-operation can bring in the next few years to the world, certainly in the next few decades newly taught in the sharpening school of war, an expansion of material well-being beyond anything that has yet occurred in human experience. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
Miranda v. Arizona | 1966 | In the absence of other effective measures, the following procedures to safeguard the Fifth Amendment privilege must be observed: the person in custody must, prior to interrogation, be clearly informed that he has the right to remain silent, and that anything he says will be used against him in court; he must be clearly informed that he has the right to consult with a lawyer and to have the lawyer with him during interrogation, and that, if he is indigent, a lawyer will be appointed to represent him. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | To Arthur, however, the newcomer was, I saw clearly, anything but welcome |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Indeed, the Spirit did not stay for anything, but went straight on, as to the end just now desired, until besought by Scrooge to tarry for a moment |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | Who said anything about panicking |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | This faith, more than anything else, steals the pith and availability out of whatever enterprise he may dream of undertaking |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He seized the bread, bit a piece, then slowly put it back on the table, and did not touch anything more |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | And his father had told him if he wanted anything to write home to him and, whatever he did, never to peach on a fellow |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Gold were as good as twenty orators, And will, no doubt, tempt him to anything. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | No more use for anything. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | They have no remembrance of anything but what they learned and observed in their youth and middle age, and even that is very imperfect |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | He has no time to be anything but a machine |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Avoid anything that can make your tinnitus worse. (references) | |
Do not eat or drink anything sold by street vendors. (references) | ||
HD isn't caused by anything the mother did while she was pregnant. (references) | ||
Business | This makes composing anything more than a few lines of text cumbersome. (references) | |
Anything entering Israel destined for the PA is still subject to Israel’s Value Added Tax (VAT) which currently equals 17 percent (based on shipping forms). (references) | ||
Consumers in the PA areas prefer custom-made home furniture because they perceive the quality to be far superior to anything being offered in local showrooms. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Fiji | This description includes anything the Government considers false news that could create or foster public alarm or result in "detriment" to the public. (references) |
Saudi Arabia | The April 28 edition of Arreyand, an eastern province-based sports daily, was seized by the Information Ministry to prevent criticism of the Saudi Sports Federation; the Government directed another newspaper not to publish anything on the event. (references) | |
Uzbekistan | Believers of many faiths reported that during police and local administration raids on both registered and unregistered places of worship and private homes, officials confiscate anything that looks suspicious, especially foreign Islamic literature or Uzbek-language Christian literature. (references) | |
Economic History | Taiwan | Accomplishing anything requires building coalitions and forging compromise. (references) |
Egypt | A corollary is that only a fool would offer one's best price, or anything close to it, early in negotiations. (references) | |
Cote D'ivoire | Shell, in partnership with Ocean Energy, in 2000 drilled in their offshore block CI-105 where structures look promising but did not find anything worth noting. (references) | |
Human Rights | Gambia | The police questioned him for many hours but did not seize anything from him. (references) |
Belarus | Zavadsky's wife and a lawyer representing his mother were allowed to attend, but were under court order not to disclose anything about the court proceedings. (references) | |
Belarus | The exchange took place in front of television cameras; the authorities left without seizing anything, only to return several days later to destroy the equipment. (references) | |
Political Economy | Kuwait | In terms of safety and security, U.S. firms should not find anything in Kuwait at the present time to interfere with normal business operations. (references) |
SPAIN | These policies have continued in the guise of the Stability Pact, which, if anything, has a bias toward even stricter fiscal policy than the preceding agreement. (references) | |
Trade | Argentina | Samples sent by parcel post or in other ways are free of duties and taxes when valued at less than CIF $100. A tax is imposed on samples valued from $100 up to $20,000; anything over $20,000 is not considered a sample item. (references) |
Travel | Ghana | Anything below this is subject to tax at progressive rates. (references) |
Ghana | It is illegal to pay anything less than this figure to any employee. (references) | |
South Africa | Airmail from the US is slow, it can take anything between 2 to 3 weeks. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, as a domestic horse to the hitching-post, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination -- free, lawless, immune to bit and rein. Your novelist is a poor creature, as Carlyle might say -- a mere reporter. He may invent his characters and plot, but he must not imagine anything taking place that might not occur, albeit his entire narrative is candidly a lie. Why he imposes this hard condition on himself, and "drags at each remove a lengthening chain" of his own forging he can explain in ten thick volumes without illuminating by so much as a candle's ray the black profound of his own ignorance of the matter. There are great novels, for great writers have "laid waste their powers" to write them, but it remains true that far and away the most fascinating fiction that we have is "The Thousand and One Nights." |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Andy Rooney | On television, the drug companies make it sound as if you could talk to your doctor any time you wanted to about anything. |
Cast of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" | This friend wondered if you're not doing anything, you know, Saturday night, if you would like to have dinner. At her place. |
Dennis Miller | Listen I'm all for anything that will prolong my life. |
Gene Wilder | I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while. But she was funny. She spent more time worrying about being liked than anything else. |
James Lipton | Not just project, but on stage, you have to begin at the beginning and end at the end, and you're out there, you can't stop for anything. In film, you stop constantly. |
Michael J. Fox | Stem cell is a very big possibility and a very big part of it. I don't like to rule out anything, but certainly that's a very promising thing. |
Nancy Pelosi | Oh, I don't think so. I think we have to wait to see the facts. We can't say anything until we know what the facts are. |
Rush Limbaugh | In political speech, you can assert anything. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | From attempts to appropriate the national funds to objects which are confessedly of a local character we can not, I trust, have anything further to apprehend. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Modern science and technology have given us the possibility of making labor fruitful beyond anything that could have been dreamed of a few decades ago. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | This Nation simply cannot accept anything less without jeopardizing the lives of our men and of our allies. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | This, more than anything, is what I hope will be my legacy to you, to our country, as I leave the Presidency. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | A resurgent American economy would do more to restore the confidence of the world in its own future than anything else we can do. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Well, we're going to have to set the economy free, for if this age of miracles and wonders has taught us anything, it's that if we can change the world, we can change America. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | In the end, more than anything else, our world leadership grows out of the power of our example here at home, out of our ability to remain strong as one America. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | What you do is as important as anything government does. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Anything" is generally used as a pronoun (indefinite) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Anything" is used about 28,291 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Pronoun (indefinite) | 100% | 28,291 | 299 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "anything". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Noph | N/A | Biblical | Anything that distills or drops |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "anything": Anything but ♦ anything else ♦ anything else will do ♦ Anything like ♦ anything short of murder ♦ anything will do ♦ as anything ♦ be easy as anything ♦ for anything ♦ game for anything ♦ hardly anything ♦ if he were anything of a gentleman ♦ like anything ♦ not anything like ♦ not care a damn about anything ♦ not for anything ♦ on for anything ♦ To ding anything in one's ears ♦ To play pitch and toss with anything ♦ to see anything out. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "anything": anything-a, anything-but-carefree, anything-but-free, anything-but-lovable, anything-but-ragged, anything-core, anything-though. | |
Ending with "anything": anti-anything, can't-get-away-with-anything, mother-anything, tackle-anything, T-get-away-with-anything, untouched-by-anything, yes-anything. | |
Containing "anything": do-anything-if-the-cash-is-right, heaven-knows-anything-goes, i-can-do-anything-i-want-any-time-i-want-and-make-you-like-it, i-will-do-anything-for-you, you-don't-have-to-tell-me-anything-about-carol. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "anything"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | iets (something), enigiets (something). (various references) | |
Albanian | diçka (any, aught, either, somebody, someone, something, somewhat). (various references) | |
Arabic | أي شئ (anyone), أى شئ كان. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | всичко (all, everything, lock stock and barrel, whole), нещо (affair, aught, do, matter, something, summat, thing). (various references) | |
Catalan | quelcom (something). (various references) | |
Chinese | 無論何事 (whatever), 任何 (Any, Whatever, Whatsoever). (various references) | |
Czech | cokoliv (aught, whatever, whatsoever, whichever). (various references) | |
Danish | noget (something). (various references) | |
Dutch | iets (something). (various references) | |
Estonian | midagi. (various references) | |
Faeroese | okkurt (something), nakað (a little, rather, some, something, somewhat, to some extent). (various references) | |
Farsi | هیچ چیز, هیچ کار, هرچیز (Anyone, Apiece), هرکار, بهرمقدار, بهراندازه . (various references) | |
Finnish | jokin (any, some, something). (various references) | |
French | rien (not an ace), quelque chose. (various references) | |
French Canadian | rien. (various references) | |
Frisian | eat (something). (various references) | |
German | etwas (a bit, a little, any, aught, poco, rather, slightly, some, something, somewhat, to some extent), irgendetwas (something), irgendwas (something, something or other, somewhat), irgend etwas (any, aught, something, something or other, somewhat). (various references) | |
Greek | κάτι (something, somewhat), τίποτα (naught, nil, nothing, nought), οτιδήποτε (whatever, whatnot). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | gjëkafshë (something), diçka (something). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משהו (aught, slightly, something, somewhat), מאומה (something, whatever), שום דבר (nothing), כלום (nothing, something), כל דבר (everything, whatnot), דבר (affair, matter, message, object, saying, something, thing, word). (various references) | |
Hungarian | valami (any, aught, number, ought, some, something, something or other, something to live for). (various references) | |
Indonesian | apapun (any, no matter what). (various references) | |
Irish | tada. (various references) | |
Italian | altro (another, anything else, different, each other, else, further, more, one another, other, rest), tutto (all, all the, altogether, any, each, each one, entire, every, every one, everybody, everything, integral, overall, whole, whole shoot), qualunque cosa (whatever, whichever), qualsiasi cosa (whatever, whatsoever), qualcosa (a little, ought, some, something), per niente (by no means, none, noway), nulla (naught, nil, Nix, nothing), niente (nil, none, not at all, nothing), in qualche modo (somehow, someway). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 幾らか (a little, in part, some, something, somewhat), 何なり (any, whatever). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | なんなり (any, whatever), いくらか (a little, in part, some, something, somewhat). (various references) | |
Manx | veg (duck, love, none, nothing), red erbee (whatsoever), nhee erbee. (various references) | |
Norwegian | noe (something). (various references) | |
Papiamen | algu (something), un cos (something). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anythingay.(various references) | |
Polish | coś (something). (various references) | |
Portuguese | algo (riches, something, somewhat), qualquer coisa (aught, something). (various references) | |
Romanian | ceva (a bit, a little, aught, little, some, something, somewhat). (various references) | |
Russian | что-нибудь (aught, something). (various references) | |
Scottish | té-eigin (a, an, any, anybody, one, some, somebody, someone, something), suth, sìon (season;, something, weather), rudeigin (something), gus (and the verbal, preceding an, the art. of the n., till, to, until), feareigin (a, an, any, anybody, one, some, somebody, someone, something), dad (the smallest thing), beuban (anything mangled or spoiled). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bilo šta (whatever). (various references) | |
Somali | wax (something, thing). (various references) | |
Spanish | algo (at all, aught, rather, smth., some, something, somewhat, sth., trifle), cualquier cosa (any old thing, whatever, whatnot, whatsoever). (various references) | |
Sranan | wansani (something). (various references) | |
Swedish | någonting (something), vad som helst (aught, whatever), något (any, anybody, anyone, one, some, somebody, someone, something, somewhat). (various references) | |
Tagalog | anuman. (various references) | |
Thai | ใดๆ. (various references) | |
Turkish | ne olsa, hiç bir şey, herhangi bir şey, her şey (all, everything), bir şey (something). (various references) | |
Turkmen | nдmede bolsa bir zat. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | усе (all in all, everything), скільки-небудь (any), якоюсь мірою (anywhere, something), щось (something, whatnot), що-небудь (any, aught, something), ніщо (any, naught, negation, neither, nihil, nihility, none, nonentity, nothing, nothingness, nought, nullity, zero), будь-що. (various references) | |
Welsh | dim (any, aught, no, none, nothing, something). (various references) | |
Yucatec | wa ba'ax (something). (various references) | |
Zulu | noma yini (something), into (something, thing). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | alicui, alicuius, aliquae, aliquam, aliquas, aliquem, aliqui, aliquid, aliquis, aliquo, aliquos, nequa, qua, quicquam, quicquid, quid, quilibet, quis, quisquam, quisque. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | awiht, owiht. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 15, Verse 16 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai epequmei gemisai thn koilian autou apo twn keratiwn wn hsqion oi coiroi kai oudeiV edidou autw |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et cupiebat implere ventrem suum de siliquis quas porci manducabant et nemo illi dabat |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | þa gewilnode he his wambe gefyllan of þam biencoddun þe ða swyn æton. and him man ne sealde; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And he coueitide to fille his wombe of the coddis that the hoggis eeten, and no man yaf hym. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And he wold fayne have filled his bely with the coddes that ye swyne ate: and noo man gave him. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat; and no man gave to him. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And so great was his need that he would have been glad to take the pigs' food, and no one gave him anything. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Luke Chapter 15, Verse 16 |
| Cebuano | Ug siya nangandoy sa pagbusog sa iyang kaugalingon bisan pa sa mga bunga sa biya-tilis nga ginakaon sa mga baboy; ug walay tawo nga mihatag kaniyag bisan unsa. |
| Croatian | Želio se nasititi rogaèima što su ih jele svinje, ali mu ih nitko nije davao." |
| Danish | Og han attråede at fylde sin Bug med de Bønner, som Svinene åde; og ingen gav ham noget. |
| Dutch | En hij begeerde zijn buik te vullen met den draf, dien de zwijnen aten; en niemand gaf hem dien. |
| Finnish | Ja hän halusi täyttää vatsansa niillä palkohedelmillä, joita siat söivät, mutta niitäkään ei kukaan hänelle antanut. |
| French | Il aurait bien voulu se rassasier des carouges que mangeaient les pourceaux, mais personne ne lui en donnait. |
| German | Und er begehrte seinen Bauch zu füllen mit Trebern, die die Säue aßen; und niemand gab sie ihm. |
| Haitian Creole | Lè sa a, li ta byen renmen plen vant li ak sa kochon yo t'ap manje a, men pesonn pa t' ba li. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Ia begitu lapar sehingga ingin mengisi perutnya dengan makanan babi-babi itu. Walaupun ia begitu lapar, tidak seorang pun memberi makanan kepadanya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka inginlah ia akan mengisi perutnya dengan hampas kulit, makanan babi, tetapi tiada seorang pun memberikan kepadanya. |
| Italian | Avrebbe voluto saziarsi con le carrube che mangiavano i porci; ma nessuno gliene dava. |
| Manx Gaelic | As by-vian lesh e volg y lhieeney lesh ny bleaystyn va ny muckyn dy ee: as cha row dooinney erbee hug cooney da. |
| Maori | I hiahia hoki ia kia whakakiia tona kopu ki nga kiri e kainga ana e nga poaka: heoi kihai i hoatu e tetahi ki a ia. |
| Norwegian | og hans attrå var å fylle sin buk med de skolmer som svinene åt, og ingen gav ham noget. |
| Portuguese | E desejava encher o estômago com as alfarrobas que os porcos comiam; e ninguém lhe dava nada. |
| Rumanian | Mult ar fi dorit el sq se sature cu rowcovele, pe cari le mkncau porcii, dar nu i le da nimeni. |
| Russian | Й ПО ТБД ВЩМ ОБРПМОЙФШ ЮТЕЧП УЧПЕ ТПЦЛБНЙ, ЛПФПТЩЕ ЕМЙ УЧЙОШЙ, ОП ОЙЛФП ОЕ ДБЧБМ ЕНХ. |
| Shuar | Uchi ti tsukamak kuchi ukatramun niisha Yuátajtsa ti wakerimiai. Túrasha penké Súcharmai. |
| Spanish | Y él deseaba saciarse con las algarrobas que comían los cerdos, y nadie se las daba. |
| Swahili | Alitamani kula maganda waliyokula wale nguruwe, ila hakuna mtu aliyempa kitu. |
| Swedish | Och han åstundade att få fylla sin buk med de fröskidor som svinen åto; men ingen gav honom något. |
| Uma | Ngkai kamo'oro' -na, mehina-imi-hawo doko' mpokoni' kano wawu. Hiaa' uma hema to mpowai' -i pongkoni'. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "anything": anythings. (additional references) | |
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"Anything" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anichini, anyhting, anythin, anythinke, anyting, anyything, hanything, manythings, naethin, onythin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "anything" (pronounced e"nēthi'ng) |
| 4 | -ē th i' ng | everything. |
| 3 | -th i' ng | plaything. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-h-i-n-n-t-y" | |
-1 letter: hanting. | |
-2 letters: anting, hating, haying, nighty, tyning. | |
-3 letters: giant, ginny, hinny, hying, night, ninth, tangy, thing, tinny, tying. | |
-4 letters: agin, anti, ayin, gain, gait, ghat, gnat, hang, hant, hint, nigh, tain, tang, than, thin, ting, tiny, tyin, yagi, yang. | |
-5 letters: ain, ait, ani, ant, any, gan, gat, gay, ghi, gin, git, hag, hat, hay, hin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-h-i-n-n-t-y" | |
+1 letter: anythings. | |
+2 letters: hauntingly. | |
+3 letters: hyphenating, phantasying. | |
+4 letters: antilynching, enchantingly, hearteningly. | |
+5 letters: astonishingly, hydrogenating, hydrogenation, threateningly. | |
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