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What is the difference between anybody and everybody?

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Everybody is a related term of anybody.



As pronouns the difference between anybody and everybody

is that anybody is any one out of an indefinite number of persons; anyone; any person while everybody is all people.

anybody

English

Pronoun

(English Pronouns)
  • Any one out of an indefinite number of persons; anyone; any person.
  • Anybody will do.
    Is there anybody inside?
  • (informal) A person of some consideration or standing.
  • Everybody who wants to be anybody will come to Jake's party.
    Here one isn't anybody , if one doesn't dance like Travolta.

    Synonyms

    * anyone

    everybody

    English

    Pronoun

    (English Pronouns)
  • All people.
  • *
  • *:Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody' s exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figureā€”a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
  • *1998 , (w),
  • *:When the party was nice, the party was jumpin' (Hey, Yippie, Yi, Yo) / And everybody havin' a ball (Hah, ho, Yippie Yi Yo)
  • Usage notes

    Everybody'' takes a singular verb: ''Is everybody here?''; ''Everybody has heard of it.

    Antonyms

    * nobody, no one * Logically negates to not everybody .

    Synonyms

    * everyone

    Derived terms

    * everybody and his cousin * everybody and their brother