something meaning
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WSomething
- Something is an indefinite pronoun. It may refer to:
- NounPLsomethingsSUF-ing
- An object whose nature is yet to be defined.
- 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.
- 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).
- An object whose nature is yet to be defined.
- Pronoun
- An uncertain or unspecified thing; one thing.
- 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.
- COL (of someone or something) A quality to a moderate degree.
- The performance was something of a disappointment.
- That child is something of a genius.
- COL (of a person) A talent or quality that is difficult to specify.
- She has a certain something.
- COL (often with really) Somebody or something who is superlative in some way.
- He's really something! I've never heard such a great voice.
- She's really something. I can't believe she would do such a mean thing.
- An uncertain or unspecified thing; one thing.
- VerbSGsomethingsPRsomethingingPT, PPsomethinged
- Adjective
- Having a characteristic that the speaker cannot specify.
- Having a characteristic that the speaker cannot specify.
- Adverb
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Miss Mae gave me the stink eye, just on general principle, when I came into the kitchen. She was so good at the stink eye that even if you hadn't done something wrong, you felt like you did.
- If nothing happens when you ask nicely, make a stink until something gets done.
- When laptop computers first came out they were something of a novelty. These days, nobody bats an eyelid.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Something about the way he said that made me just bust a gut: I practically died laughing!
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Her name is on the tip of my tongue; it could be Kathy or Karen or something.
- Stop horsing around with the controls, before you break something.
- I have a copy of the UPI stylebook which I check when I need to know how to write something.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of something in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Uncomparable adjectives
- Uncomparable adjectives
- Adverbs
- Degree adverbs
- Uncomparable adverbs
- Degree adverbs
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Pronouns
- Third person pronouns
- Indefinite pronouns
- Third person pronouns
- Verbs
- Adjectives
- en somethings
- en somethingth
- en something's
- en somethinged
- en somethinging
Source: Wiktionary

