anything like
1Anything like — Anything A ny*thing, n. 1. Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught; as, I would not do it for anything. [1913 Webster] Did you ever know of anything so unlucky? A. Trollope. [1913 Webster]… …
2anything\ like — • anything like • anywhere near adv Nearly. Used in negative, interrogative, and conditional sentences, often in the negative forms nothing like or nowhere near . It s not anything like as hot today as it was yesterday. Do you think that gold… …
3anything like — adverb : in any way : to any extent : at all give anything like an adequate image of the phonetic facts R.M.S.Heffner * * * anything like phrase similar to someone or something else in some way Is Tom anything like his brother? Thesaurus: similar …
4anything like — or[anywhere near] {adv.} Nearly. Used in negative, interrogative, and conditional sentences, often in the negative forms nothing like or nowhere near . * /It s not anything like as hot today as it was yesterday./ * /Do you think that gold ring is …
5anything like — or[anywhere near] {adv.} Nearly. Used in negative, interrogative, and conditional sentences, often in the negative forms nothing like or nowhere near . * /It s not anything like as hot today as it was yesterday./ * /Do you think that gold ring is …
6anything like - — [with negative] at all like (used for emphasis) it doesn t taste anything like wine …
7anything like — phrasal in any way ; at all < it s not anything like as good as it used to be > …
8anything like — similar to someone or something else in some way Is Tom anything like his brother? …
9anything like with negative — at all like. → anything …
10anything like somebody — anything like sb/sth idiom (informal) (used in questions and negative statements) similar to sb/sth • He isn t anything like my first boss. Main entry: ↑anythingidiom …
