Adjectiveany person who comes in the store today is eligible for the discountAdverb The food there is never any good. He won't be any happier there than he was here. I could not walk any farther. I can't eat any more pizza.
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Adjective
No one, after all, would be any the wiser: Hillary would coast to victory, so Democrats would continue running the government; FISA materials are highly classified, so they’d be kept under wraps. Andrew C. Mccarthy, National Review, 23 Dec. 2017 In another Tuesday morning tweet, the president denied even knowing any the women who have spoken out. Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 12 Dec. 2017 The first thing to do is remove any the things that attract the skunk. Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2017
Adverb
The challenges faced by today’s chip makers aren’t solely related to the number of transistors being squeezed into a single chip any longer. Marco Chiappetta, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022 This isn’t about a race for district attorney any more.BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2022 When will this Trump movement become unambiguously fascist, such that no one can even bother debating it or denying it any longer? Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 29 Aug. 2022 Does this work any longer, or are employers missing out on skilled employees with talent and drive because the best potential hires lacked the time and money to attend college? Lynne Curry | Alaska Workplace, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Aug. 2022 This scene was already beyond belief in 2019—nobody involved knew Russia and Ukraine weren’t the same country any more? Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 3 July 2022 Several of those fans reached out to The Times to say Owens has been ordered not to throw bags of peanuts any more. Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2022 Top Gun fans eager to see Maverick on their screens at home don’t have to wait any longer. John Lonsdale, Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 2022 If Borkovska had stayed in Ukraine any longer, she might have been killed. Daedan Olander, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Aug. 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Adjective
Middle English, from Old English ǣnig; akin to Old High German einag any, Old English ān one — more at one
First Known Use
Adjective
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Pronoun
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1