something
Part of speech: pron
adj
adv
verb
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English somþyng, some-thing, som thing, sum thinge, sum þinge, from Old English sum þing (literally “some thing”), equivalent to some + thing. Compare Old English āwiht (“something”, literally “some thing, any thing”), Swedish någonting (“something”, literally “some thing, any thing”).
Compound parts: some
thing
Inflected forms:
form: somthing
pos: pron
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: sumthing
pos: pron
tags: alternative
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form: somethang
pos: pron
tags: alternative
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form: sumfin
pos: pron
tags: alternative
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form: sumfin'
pos: pron
tags: alternative
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form: sumn
pos: pron
tags: alternative
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form: sumpin
pos: pron
tags: alternative
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form: sumting
pos: pron
tags: alternative
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form: sumthang
pos: pron
tags: alternative
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form: sumfink
pos: pron
tags: alternative
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form: sth
pos: pron
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: sth.
pos: pron
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: sthg
pos: pron
tags: alternative
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form: smtg
pos: pron
tags: alternative
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form: smth
pos: pron
tags: alternative
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form: smtn
pos: pron
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: somthing
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: sumthing
pos: adj
tags: alternative
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form: somethang
pos: adj
tags: alternative
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form: sumfin
pos: adj
tags: alternative
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form: sumfin'
pos: adj
tags: alternative
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form: sumn
pos: adj
tags: alternative
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form: sumpin
pos: adj
tags: alternative
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form: sumting
pos: adj
tags: alternative
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form: sumthang
pos: adj
tags: alternative
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form: sumfink
pos: adj
tags: alternative
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form: sth
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: sth.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: sthg
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: smtg
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: smth
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: smtn
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: somthing
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: sumthing
pos: adv
tags: alternative
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form: somethang
pos: adv
tags: alternative
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form: sumfin
pos: adv
tags: alternative
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form: sumfin'
pos: adv
tags: alternative
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form: sumn
pos: adv
tags: alternative
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form: sumpin
pos: adv
tags: alternative
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form: sumting
pos: adv
tags: alternative
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form: sumthang
pos: adv
tags: alternative
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form: sumfink
pos: adv
tags: alternative
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form: sth
pos: adv
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: sth.
pos: adv
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: sthg
pos: adv
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: smtg
pos: adv
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: smth
pos: adv
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: smtn
pos: adv
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: somethings
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: somethinging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: somethinged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: somethinged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: somthing
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: sumthing
pos: verb
tags: alternative
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form: somethang
pos: verb
tags: alternative
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form: sumfin
pos: verb
tags: alternative
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form: sumfin'
pos: verb
tags: alternative
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form: sumn
pos: verb
tags: alternative
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form: sumpin
pos: verb
tags: alternative
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form: sumting
pos: verb
tags: alternative
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form: sumthang
pos: verb
tags: alternative
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form: sumfink
pos: verb
tags: alternative
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form: sth
pos: verb
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: sth.
pos: verb
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: sthg
pos: verb
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: smtg
pos: verb
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: smth
pos: verb
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: smtn
pos: verb
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: somethings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: somthing
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: sumthing
pos: noun
tags: alternative
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form: somethang
pos: noun
tags: alternative
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form: sumfin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
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form: sumfin'
pos: noun
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
form: sumn
pos: noun
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
form: sumpin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
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form: sumting
pos: noun
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
form: sumthang
pos: noun
tags: alternative
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form: sumfink
pos: noun
tags: alternative
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form: sth
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: sth.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: sthg
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: smtg
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: smth
pos: noun
tags: alternative
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form: smtn
pos: noun
tags: alternative
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Senses:
gloss: An uncertain or unspecified thing; one thing.
pos: pron
tags: indefinite
pronoun
examples: I must have forgotten to pack something, but I can't think what.
I have something for you in my bag.
I have a feeling something good is going to happen today.
The answer to four down is P something T something Y.
She looked thirty-something. (anything from thirty-one to thirty-nine years old)
Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.
gloss: A quality to a moderate degree.
pos: pron
tags: colloquial
indefinite
pronoun
examples: The performance was something of a disappointment.
That child is something of a genius.
Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, with something of the stately pose which Richter has given his Queen Louise on the stairway, and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.
Christensen, who also edited and co-wrote the film, is becoming something of a specialist in child horror, having launched his feature directorial career with the infant-themed Still/Born in 2017.
gloss: A talent or quality that is difficult to specify.
pos: pron
tags: colloquial
indefinite
pronoun
examples: She has a certain something.
gloss: Somebody who or something that is superlative or notable in some way.
pos: pron
tags: colloquial
indefinite
often
pronoun
examples: He's really something! I've never heard such a great voice.
She's quite something. I can't believe she would do such a mean thing.
Some marmosets are less than six inches tall. —Well, isn't that something?
Kanye [West]'s speech was...something, that's for sure. As for a best or worst moment? Apparently, it depends on what you think of Yeezy because Twitter was a house divided.
gloss: Having a characteristic that the speaker cannot specify.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: "Very poetic." They came to a halt before the outer door. "It's very something," Rusty said wistfully. "How do you do it?"
"It's very — it's very something," said Lucy. "It's a kind of love-letter, isn't it?"
If it isn't large, I certainly can't say it's small. But it's very something.
'How proud they have become,' I said, 'how disobedient. I must say, all in all, it's very something.'
gloss: Somewhat; to a degree.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The baby looks something like his father.
Angelo. Yet giue leaue (my Lord,)
That we may bring you something on the way
gloss: Used to adverbialise a following adjective
pos: adv
tags: colloquial
especially
not-comparable
examples: I miss them something terrible/rotten. (I miss them terribly)
You can't thrash when you have rheumatic fever – though you want to something awful, Mrs. White says.
Seeing him here, though, I all of a sudden feel more like I been gone from home three years, instead of three weeks, and I miss my people something fierce.
And then she put the coffin right out on her front porch. Jim told everyone he'd built it kind of roomy since Bobby Lee was on the stout side, but that it better get used quick because sycamore tends to warp something terrible.
gloss: Designates an action whose name is forgotten by, unknown or unimportant to the user, e.g. from words of a song.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
examples: 1890, William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0140439234&id=IOZeJi7U4eEC&pg=PA96&lpg=PA96&sig=LW2P-uKmoZabe70ZKnIHIMQLXlw
He didn’t apply for it for a long time, and then there was a hitch about it, and it was somethinged—vetoed, I believe she said.
2003, George Angel, “Allegoady,” in Juncture, Lara Stapleton and Veronica Gonzalez edd. http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1887128913&id=qB-D32yV1VAC&pg=PA161&lpg=PA161&sig=9AYyYLA-MQqTgAbptreoe3VyOzQ
She hovers over the something somethinging and awkwardly lowers her bulk.
2005, Floyd Skloot, A World of Light http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0803243189&id=TEgRGe6FiTkC&pg=PA40&lpg=PA40&sig=zEj4BPQ0eEFkj6LdOI8eRJlZrzE
“Oh how we somethinged on the hmmm hmm we were wed. Dear, was I ever on the stage?”
gloss: An object whose nature is yet to be defined.
pos: noun
examples: Yea, ’t is true; I ’d know thee by thine eyen, that are gray, and thoughtful, and dark with a something that lies behind the colour of them,—and shining by the light of a lamp lit somewhere within.
From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.[…] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.
gloss: An object whose name is forgotten by, unknown or unimportant to the user, e.g., from words of a song. Also used to refer to an object earlier indefinitely referred to as 'something' (pronoun sense).
pos: noun
examples: What was the something the pilot saw, the something worth killing for?
2004, Theron Q Dumont, The Master Mind http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0766185435&id=-n_jW7BVfawC&pg=PA26&lpg=PA26&sig=ou-CrIyWbKyZQ0s3q0uaJTiHdsI
Moreover, in all of our experience with these sense impressions, we never lose sight of the fact that they are but incidental facts of our mental existence, and that there is a Something Within which is really the Subject of these sense reports—a Something to which these reports are presented, and which receives them.
2004, Ira Levin, The Stepford Wives http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0060738197&id=rKeKLf7LeXAC&pg=PA151&lpg=PA151&sig=uAeyLuj-HYk1dLAme_rokCWQITc
She wiped something with a cloth, wiped at the wall shelf, and put the something on it, clinking glass.
Related words: anything
everything
nothing
somebody
someone
-something
-somethingth
somewhere
thing
Derived words: a little of something goes a long way
be onto something
give someone something to think about
leave something to be desired
look like something the cat brought in
look like something the cat dragged in
look like something the cat's dragged in
make something of
or something
something green in one's eye
slip into something more comfortable
some something or other
something and nothing
somethingburger
something dreadful
something else
something for the weekend
something is better than nothing
Somethingism
something is rotten in the state of Denmark
something is up
something like
something like that
something nasty in the woodshed
somethingness
something or other
something something
something tells one
somethingth
something to write home about
tell me something I don't know
that is something
that's saying something
that's something
there is something rotten in the state of Denmark
there is something to be said for
there must be something in the water
up to something
you can't get something for nothing
you don't get something for nothing
you know something
you learn something new every day
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: ма́лко
roman: málko
lang: Galician
word: algo
lang: German
word: klein
lang: Māori
word: ngaringari
lang: Welsh
word: tipyn