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something
[ suhm-thing ]
pronoun
- some thing; a certain undetermined or unspecified thing:
Something is wrong there.
Something's happening.
- an additional amount, as of cents or minutes, that is unknown, unspecified, or forgotten:
He charged me ten something for the hat.
Our train gets in at two something.
noun
- Informal. a person or thing of some value or consequence:
He is really something!
This writer has something to say and she says it well.
adverb
- in some degree; to some extent; somewhat.
- Informal. to a high or extreme degree; quite:
He took on something fierce about my tardiness.
something
1/ ˈʌθɪŋ /
pronoun
- an unspecified or unknown thing; some thing
take something warm with you
he knows something you don't
- an unspecified or unknown amount; bit
something less than a hundred
- an impressive or important person, thing, or event
isn't that something?
- something elsea remarkable person or thing
- something or otherone unspecified thing or an alternative thing
adverb
- to some degree; a little; somewhat
to look something like me
- informal.foll by an adjective (intensifier)
it hurts something awful
-something
2combining form
- a person whose age can be approximately expressed by a specified decade
- ( as modifier )
the thirtysomething market
Word History and Origins
Origin of something1
Word History and Origins
Origin of something1
Idioms and Phrases
- buy something
- get (have) something on someone
- get something straight
- have something against
- hold something against
- hold (something) over
- look like something the cat dragged in
- make something of
- not put something past one
- on the ball, have something
- (something) or other
- pull something on
- start something
- take something
- you know something
Example Sentences
“I think it’s something you need to do,” trainer Michael McCarthy said after the race.
It’s something Ken Albala came across while writing his book “The Great Gelatin Revival”—a book, it’s worth noting, he only wrote on a dare.
began as a curiosity about light and suspension, turned into something more sustained.
“It was a process. It’s not like cooking something where you can just whip it up, taste it and adjust as you go,” he admitted.
“Ambrosia was definitely something we had at family parties growing up,” DiMario said.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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