Home › Words › E › everythingeverything/ˈɛv(ə)ɹiˌθɪŋ/everything means all the things under discussion.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, everything ranks #11,086 of 42,747 for Qualifying.everything is pronounced /ˈɛv(ə)ɹiˌθɪŋ/.EtymologyInherited from Middle English every thing; univerbation of every + thing.pronAll the things under discussion.e.g.“I checked the list again and everything is done.”Many or most things.e.g.“A: What do you want to do at the amusement park? B: Everything!”A state of well-being (from all parts of the whole).e.g.“Everything failed, didn't it?”Considerable effort.e.g.“It took everything in me to resist the temptation to skip work on my birthday.”The most important thing.e.g.“I can't believe I made it in time – timing is everything!”verbUsed as a placeholder verb to encapsulate a set of related verbs or any action.e.g.“‘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.” — 1990, Jonathan Gash, The Very Last Gambado, St. Martin's Press, page 107:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).