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Alternative forms

• (eye dialect, AAVE): e'rythin', e'rythang, e'rything, ev'ryting, ev'rythang, ev'ythang, ev'rything, ev'ythin', ev'ything, errythin,
• (eye dialect, Caribbean): everytin', everyting
• (eye dialect, Southern US): everytang
• (obsolete): evrything, evrythin

Pronoun

everything

1. (literally) All the things under discussion.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 4, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     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.

   I checked the list again and everything is done.‎

   Thank you for everything you've done for us.‎

2. (colloquial) Many or most things.
   • 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 […]

   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.‎

3. (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.‎

Synonyms

• all

Antonyms

• nothing

Derived terms

• everything and the kitchen sink
• everything but the kitchen sink
• everything else
• everything under the sun
• if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail
• leave everything on the road
• talk about everything under the sun
• theory of everything
• timing is everything

Look at pages starting with everything.

Related terms

• anything
• every
• everybody
• everyone
• everywhere
• nothing
• something

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