anything

Meanings

Pronoun

• Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; a thing of any kind; something or other.

Noun

• Someone or something of importance.

Adverb

• In any way, any extent or any degree.

Origin

• From Middle English anything, enything, onything, from Late Old English aniþing, from earlier ǣniġ þing, equivalent to any + thing.
• From Middle English anything, enything, onything, onythynge, from Old English ǣniġe þinga, ǣnġi þinga, from ǣniġe, instrumental form of ǣniġ + þinga, genitive plural of þing.