thing
/θɪŋ/noun1 syllable
Thing means: a vaguely specified concern.
Synonyms for thing7
What does thing mean?12
noun
a vaguely specified concern“several matters to attend to”
a special situation“this thing has got to end”
an action“how could you do such a thing?”
a special abstraction“a thing of the spirit”
an artifact“how does this thing work?”
an event“a funny thing happened on the way to the …”
a statement regarded as an object“to say the same thing in other terms”
an entity that is not named specifically“I couldn't tell what the thing was”
any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence“the thing I like about her is …”
a special objective“the thing is to stay in bounds”
a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion“he has a thing about seafood”
a separate and self-contained entity
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What rhymes with thing?18
two syllables
Thing in a sentence
- To know a language is one thing, and to teach it is another.timmartin
- Next thing you know, you'll be in the papers.Zifre
- For one thing, he thinks she is stupid, for another, he doesn't like her.DeepDarkSea12
- If it were not for the sun, every living thing would die.CC
- No matter where you may go, you may find the same thing.unknown
- If you do such a foolish thing, people will laugh at you.Dejo
- It would be foolish, not to say mad, to do such a thing.unknown
- If you do that kind of thing, it's not fair to her.CK
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Forms of thing
as a noun
- plural
- things