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Anymore vs Anything - What's the difference?

anymore | anything |

As adverbs the difference between anymore and anything

is that anymore is while anything is in any way, any extent or any degree.

As a pronoun anything is

any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other;.

As a noun anything is

someone or something of importance.

anymore

English

Adverb

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  • anything

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • In any way, any extent or any degree.
  • That isn't anything like a car.

    Pronoun

    (English Pronouns)
  • Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; .
  • :
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  • *:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer languageunderstood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade , or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-25, volume=407, issue=8837, page=74, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= No hiding place , passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.}}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1916, author=Edward S. Moffat, title=Go Forth and Find, page=81-82
  • , passage=Perhaps it was this atmosphere of misplacedness and loneliness as much as anything which led her to speak to him one evening in early summer when the office had closed.}}

    Derived terms

    () * anything else * anything goes * anythingarian * as anything * if anything * not much of anything * not that there's anything wrong with that

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone or something of importance.
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  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=May 6, author=Cindy Chupack, title=An Ancient Coda to My 21st-Century Divorce, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=So we tried not to talk about first or second anythings until our meeting with the rabbi. }}

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