thing

Meanings

• a special situation
  • "this thing has got to end"
  • "it is a remarkable thing"
• an action
  • "how could you do such a thing?"
• a special abstraction
  • "a thing of the spirit"
  • "things of the heart"
• an artifact
  • "how does this thing work?"
• an event
  • "a funny thing happened on the way to the..."
• a vaguely specified concern
  • "things are going well"
• a statement regarded as an object
  • "to say the same thing in other terms"
  • "how can you say such a thing?"
• 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"
  • "she has a thing about him"
• a separate and self-contained entity

Synonyms

affair, matter