everything

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛvɹiθɪŋ/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: eve‧ry‧thing or ev‧e‧ry‧thing

Pronoun

everything

1. (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[rosby] Lincoln, chapter IV, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] 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.

2. (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 […]

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.

4. (colloquial) Considerable effort.

   It took everything in me to resist the temptation to skip work on my birthday.

5. (colloquial) The most important thing.

   I can't believe I made it in time - timing is everything!

Synonyms

• all

Antonyms

• nothing

Derived terms

• all-everything
• and everything
• 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 rosy in the garden
• 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
• talk about everything under the sun
• talk everything
• theory of everything
• there is a time and place for everything
• timing is everything

 

Related terms

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

 

Translations

all the things

• Afrikaans: alles (af)
• Aghwan: 𐕠𐔴𐕀 (cex)
• Apache:

  Western Apache: dawa

• Arabic: كُلّ شَيْء (kull šayʔ)

  Egyptian Arabic: كل حاجة (kul ḥaga)

  Moroccan Arabic: كل شي (kull ši)

• Aragonese: tot
• Azerbaijani: hər şey, hamısı (az)
• Basque: den
• Belarusian: усё (be) (usjó)
• Bengali: সবকিছু (bn) (śobkichu)
• Bulgarian: вси́чко (bg) n (vsíčko)
• Carpathian Rusyn: вшы́тко (všŷ́tko)
• Catalan: tot (ca)
• Cherokee: ᎢᎬᏩᏕᎴᎩ (igvwadelegi)
• Cheyenne: mȧheto
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 凡事 (faan⁴ si⁶), 一切 (jat¹ cai³), 萬事／万事 (maan⁶ si⁶), 乜嘢都 (mat¹ je⁵ dou¹)

  Eastern Min: please add this translation if you can

  Gan: please add this translation if you can

  Hakka: 凡事 (fàm-sṳ), 萬事／万事 (van-sṳ)

  Hokkien: 凡事 (zh-min-nan) (hoân-sū), 萬事／万事 (zh-min-nan) (bān-sū), 一切 (zh-min-nan) (it-chhè)

  Mandarin: 一切 (zh) (yīqiè), 每事 (zh) (měishì), 什麼都／什么都 (shénme dōu), 凡事 (zh) (fánshì), 萬事／万事 (zh) (wànshì)

• Chuvash: йӑлт (jălt)
• Czech: všechno (cs) n, všechen (cs) m (before an uncountable noun)
• Danish: alt (da)
• Dutch: alles (nl)
• Egyptian: (tm)
• Esperanto: ĉio (eo)
• Estonian: kõik (et)
• Faroese: alt
• Finnish: kaikki (fi)
• French: tout (fr) m
• Galician: todo (gl) m
• Georgian: ყველაფერი (q̇velaperi)
• German: alles (de) n

  Silesian: olles n (Olles, Alles)

• Greek: όλα (el) n pl (óla), τα πάντα n pl (ta pánta)

  Ancient: πάντα n pl (pánta)

• Hebrew: הכל (he) (hachol)
• Hindi: सब कुछ (sab kuch), सब (hi) (sab)
• Hungarian: minden (hu), mind (hu) (when it is about a previously mentioned group)
• Icelandic: allt (is)
• Ido: omno (io)
• Indonesian: segala sesuatu, semuanya (id)
• Interlingua: omne, toto
• Irish: gach rud
• Istriot: doûto
• Italian: tutto (it)
• Japanese: 全て (ja) (すべて, subete), 全部 (ja) (ぜんぶ, zenbu), いずれも (izuremo), どれも (doremo)
• Kabuverdianu: túdu
• Korean: 모두 (ko) (modu), 모든 것 (modeun geot), 전부 (ko) (jeonbu)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ھەمو شتێک (hemu ştêk)

• Latin: omnia (la) n pl, nihil non, omnes res f, totae res, quidvis, quidquid n, tota (la) n
• Macedonian: се (se)
• Malay: semuanya
• Maltese: kollox
• Marathi: सर्व (sarva)
• Mbyá Guaraní: opa mba'e
• Mòcheno: òlls
• Nahuatl: nochi
• Navajo: tʼáá ałtsoní
• Norwegian: alt (no), allting (no)
• Old English: eall, ǣlċ þing, eall þing pl, ǣġhwā
• Persian: هر چیز (har čiz), همه‌چیز (hame-čiz)
• Polish: wszystko (pl) n
• Portuguese: tudo (pt) m
• Romanian: tot (ro)
• Russian: всё (ru) n (vsjo)
• Scots: aathin
• Scottish Gaelic: a h-uile rud, a h-uile càil, a h-uile sìon
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: све n

  Roman: sve n

• Slovak: všetko
• Slovene: vse (sl)
• Spanish: todo (es)
• Swedish: allt (sv) n, alla (sv) c
• Telugu: అన్నీ (te) (annī)
• Thai: ทุกสิ่ง (túk-sìng), ทุกอย่าง (túk-yàang)
• Tok Pisin: olgeta samting (tpi)
• Turkish: her şey (tr), herşey (tr)
• Ukrainian: усе́ (usé), все (uk) (vse)
• Urdu: سب کچھ (sab kuch), سب (sab), ہر چیز
• Venetan: tuto (vec)
• Vietnamese: mọi vật, mọi thứ nào (every thing), tất cả (vi) (all)
• Volapük: valikos (vo)
• Welsh: popeth
• Yámana: xanikina
• Yiddish: אַלץ (alts), אַלצדינג (altsding)

many or most things

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: kaikki (fi)
• Greek: η πλειονότητα f (i pleionótita)
• Portuguese: tudo (pt) m
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

state of well-being

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: kaikki (fi)
• Portuguese: tudo (pt) m
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

the most important thing

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: kaikki (fi)
• Portuguese: tudo (pt) m
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

Verb

everything (third-person singular simple present everythings, present participle everythinging, simple past and past participle everythinged)

1. (transitive, intransitive, colloquial, somewhat uncommon) Used as a placeholder verb to encapsulate a set of related verbs or any action. [from 19th c.]
   • 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.

   • 2018 November 12, Ann Crawford, chapter 3, in Fresh off the Starship‎^[1], Lightscapes Publishing:

     She spends as much time as possible surfing (as she quickly learns it's called), Youtubing, Googling, everythinging to research these human be-things.

See also

• anything (verb)
• something (verb)