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English
Alternative forms
- (eye dialect, AAVE): e'rythin', e'rythang, e'rything, ev'ryting, ev'rythang, ev'ythang, ev'rything, ev'ythin', ev'ything, eve'ything, errythin,
- (eye dialect, Caribbean): everytin', everyting
- (eye dialect, Southern US): everytang
- (obsolete): every thing, evrything, evrythin
Etymology
Univerbation of every + thing.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
everything
- (literally) All the things under discussion.
- I checked the list again and everything is done.
- Thank you for everything you've done for us.
- 1913, Joseph C Lincoln, chapter IV, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
- I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.
- (colloquial, hyperbolic) Many or most things.
- A:What do you want to do at the amusement park?
B:Everything! - I did everything today - washed the dishes, cut the lawn, did the laundry.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House:
- Then, I was sent to a great, cold, bare, school of big boys; where everything to eat and wear was thick and clumpy, without being enough […]
- (colloquial) A state of well-being (from all parts of the whole).
- She wasn't feeling well this morning but now everything is fine.
- Since the company lost its best customer everything has gotten worse.
- (colloquial) Considerable effort.
- It took everything in me to resist the temptation to skip work on my birthday.
- (colloquial) The most important thing.
- I can't believe I made it in time - timing is everything!
Synonyms
Antonyms
Derived terms
- all-everything
- and everything
- antieverything
- call someone everything but a child of God
- carry everything before one
- chips with everything
- chips-with-everything
- everything and the kitchen sink
- everything bagel
- everything but the galley stove
- everything but the kitchen sink
- everything else
- everything happens for a reason
- everything including the kitchen sink
- everything in the garden is lovely
- everything in the garden is rosy
- everything is everything
- everything is fair in love and war
- everything is rosy in the garden
- everythingness
- everything old is new again
- everything one touches turns to gold
- everything one touches turns to shit
- everything under the sun
- how's everything
- if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail
- know-everything
- know everything
- leave everything on the road
- mean everything to
- now I've heard everything
- now I've seen everything
- posteverything
- talk about everything under the sun
- talk everything
- theory of everything
- there is a time and place for everything
- timing is everything
Related terms
Translations
all the things
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many or most things
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state of well-being
the most important thing
Verb
everything (third-person singular simple present everythings, present participle everythinging, simple past and past participle everythinged)
- (transitive, intransitive, colloquial, somewhat uncommon) Used as a placeholder verb to encapsulate a set of related verbs or any action.
- 1990, Jonathan Gash, The Very Last Gambado, St. Martin's Press, page 107:
- ‘Hardly. We’re screened by every shrink in the kingdom. We're printed, weighed, photographed, everythinged. Selection for security takes a lifetime—one of our sayings,’ she added modestly.
- 2001, Stanley Dance, The World of Swing, Da Capo Press, page 71:
- “ ‘You're right tonight, Boss Man,’ I said. ‘They’re laying it on us.’
“They outswung us, they out-everythinged us.
- 2007, Nancy Kennedy, Lipstick Grace, Multnomah Books, page 216:
- Charlie does, too. After being adopted by Joan, after having his matted coat shaved bare, after being dewormed and de-everythinged after being loved and fed and loved some more, Charlie has turned into a brand-new dog.