Something

Pronoun

 * 1) 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.
 * 1)  (of someone or something) A quality to a moderate degree.
 * The performance was something of a disappointment.
 * 1)  (of a person) A talent or quality that is difficult to specify.
 * She has a certain something.
 * 1)  (often with really) Somebody or something who is  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.

Synonyms

 * sth

Derived terms

 * somethingth

Adjective

 * 1) Having a characteristic that the speaker cannot specify.

Adverb

 * 1)  somewhat; to a degree
 * the baby looks something like his father.
 * 1)  To a high degree.

Verb

 * 1) Applied to an action whose name is forgotten by, unknown or unimportant to the user, e.g. from words of a song.
 * 2) * 1890, William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes
 * He didn’t apply for it for a long time, and then there was a hitch about it, and it was somethinged—vetoed, I believe she said.
 * 1) * 2003, George Angel, “Allegoady,” in Juncture, Lara Stapleton and Veronica Gonzalez edd.
 * She hovers over the something somethinging and awkwardly lowers her bulk.
 * 1) * 2005, Floyd Skloot, A World of Light
 * “Oh how we somethinged on the hmmm hmm we were wed. Dear, was I ever on the stage?”

Noun

 * 1) An object whose nature is yet to be defined.
 * 2) 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).
 * 3) * 1999, Nicholas Clapp, The Road to Ubar
 * What was the something the pilot saw, the something worth killing for?
 * 1) * 2004, Theron Q Dumont, The Master Mind
 * Moreover, in all of our experience with these sense impressions, we never lose sight of the fact that they are but incidental facts of our mental existence, and that there is a Something Within which is really the Subject of these sense reports—a Something to which these reports are presented, and which receives them.
 * 1) * 2004, Ira Levin, The Stepford Wives
 * She wiped something with a cloth, wiped at the wall shelf, and put the something on it, clinking glass.

Adjectives for Something
undefinable; coquettish; intangible; infinitesimal; misty; solemn; inestimable; unnatural; ghastly; unnamable; curious.

Thesaurus
Establishment, VIP, affair, an existence, any, anything, article, artifact, aught, baron, being, big gun, big man, big name, bigwig, body, brass, brass hat, celebrity, creature, critter, dignitary, dignity, dingus, dofunny, dohickey, dojigger, dojiggy, domajig, domajigger, doodad, dowhacky, elder, entelechy, entity, eppes, etwas, existence, existent, fairly, father, figure, flumadiddle, gadget, gigamaree, gimmick, gizmo, great man, hickey, hootenanny, hootmalalie, important person, individual, interests, jigger, kind of, life, lion, lords of creation, magnate, man of mark, material thing, moderately, mogul, monad, more or less, nabob, name, notability, notable, object, organism, panjandrum, person, person of renown, persona, personage, personality, pillar of society, power, power elite, pretty, quelque chose, rather, ruling circle, sachem, some, somebody, somewhat, sort of, soul, the great, the top, thing, thingum, thingumabob, thingumadad, thingumadoodle, thingumajig, thingumajigger, thingumaree, thingummy, top brass, top people, tycoon, unit, very important person, whatchy, widget, worthy

Pronunciation

 * ,, sometimes reduced to

Pronoun

 * American Sign Language:
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic:
 * Bengali: কিছু একটা
 * Bosnian:
 * Catalan: alguna cosa, quelcom
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese: 某事 (mǒu shì)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: რაღაც
 * German:
 * Greek: κάτι (kati)
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: कुछ (kuchh)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: ,


 * Irish: rud éigin
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 무언가 (mu-eon-ga)
 * Latin: aliquid, quiddam
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay: sesuatu
 * Manx: nhee ennagh
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English:
 * Portuguese: algo, alguma coisa
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian: ,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: algo, alguna cosa
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu: ఏదో (EdO)
 * Turkish: bir şey
 * Urdu: (kuchh)
 * Volapük: bos
 * West Frisian:


 * Bosnian:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek: κάτι (kati)
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: कुछ (kuchh)
 * Japanese:
 * Latin: aliquid, quiddam


 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese: algo, alguma coisa
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: нешто
 * Roman: nešto
 * Slovene:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Urdu: (kuchh)


 * Bosnian: neko (person), nešto (thing)
 * Croatian: neko (person), nešto (thing)
 * Czech: ,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * Greek:


 * Japanese:
 * Latin: aliquid, quiddam
 * Serbian: (person),  (person),  (thing),  (thing)
 * Swedish:


 * Bosnian:
 * Croatian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: se jokin
 * French:
 * Greek: κάτι (kati)
 * Hebrew:


 * Latin: aliquid, quiddam
 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian: noenting
 * Portuguese: algo, alguma coisa
 * Serbian: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Bosnian:
 * Croatian:
 * Finnish:
 * Hebrew:
 * Japanese:


 * Latin: optimum
 * Macedonian:
 * Portuguese: ótimo
 * Serbian: ,
 * Swedish:


 * : makjo
 * : 某事 (mǒu shì)
 * : etwas (1)
 * : qualcosa (1)


 * : 무언가 (mu-eon-ga)
 * : algo (1)
 * : wanpela samting (1)
 * : עפעס (epes)

Related terms

 * -something
 * -somethingth


 * thing
 * nothing
 * anything


 * everything
 * somebody


 * someone
 * somewhere