everything vs nothing

everything

Definitions

  1. colloquial Many or most things.

Examples

Oh, and most of the scathe in my post was fairly mild. chouinard and I tend to substitute perjoratives for ... everything, actually.

For example, I see in yonder cupboard near which you are standing, several of what you call boxes (but like everything else in Flatland, they have no tops nor bottoms) full of money; I see also two tablets of accounts.

"I'm going to hire some movers to pack everything up.

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nothing

Definitions

noun

  1. a quantity of no importance

adverb

  1. in no respect; to no degree

Examples

Elisabeth found herself with a straggle of colonists in a mosquito-ridden, uncleared jungle where sandflies bored into the skin of the feet and the clay soil was so intractable that nothing would grow.

There's nothing you can do to change the little ones' minds about the gewgaws and gimcracks they expect to find beneath the tree - or to stop your in-laws' annual onslaught, for that matter.

acting as if nothing borne in mind is the best revenge.it's all for myself to live better.

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