any thing whatever; something, no matter what: Do you have anything for a toothache?
noun
2.
a thing of any kind.
adverb
3.
in any degree; to any extent; in any way; at all: Does it taste anything like chocolate?
Idioms
4.
anything but, in no degree or respect; not in the least: The plans were anything but definite.
5.
anything goes, any type of conduct, dress, speech, etc., is considered acceptable or valid or is likely to be encountered and tolerated: That resort is a place where anything goes!
Origin: before 900;Middle Englishani thing, eni thing,Old Englishǣnig thing. See any, thing1
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
late O.E., from any + thing. But O.E. ænig þinga apparently meant "somehow, anyhow" (glossing L. quoquo modo). Anythingarian (c.1704, originally dismissive) was a word for "one indifferent to religious creeds" (on model of trinitarian, unitarian, etc.).