"if anything" meaning in All languages combined

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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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        {
          "text": "The situation is, if anything, worsening rather than improving.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "“Do you think she’s tall?” / “Oh, no. If anything, she’s short.”",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "“Do you think she’s tall?” / “Oh, yes. If anything, she’s very tall.”",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1754 December 18, J. Ready, “Mr Urban, I Send You a Remarkable Case in Surgery, with the Bone Itself that Came Away; …”, in Sylvanus Urban [pseudonym; Edward Cave], editor, The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, volume XXV, London: Printed by D[avid] Henry and R. Cave, at St John's Gate, published January 1755, →OCLC, page 14, column 2:",
          "text": "She [a girl who had her left tibia removed] is quite upright, has no defect either of ſtrength or motion in her leg, and ſcarcely any deformity; if any thing, 'tis a ſmall matter bigger than the other juſt above the ankle, occaſioned by the exuberance of the callus, by which the remains of the tibia are conſolidated with the fibula; […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997 September, Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Shadow Matrix (DAW Book Collectors; no. 1065), New York, N.Y.: DAW Books, →ISBN; republished as The Shadow Matrix: A Novel of Darkover, New York, N.Y.: DAW Books, 1999, →ISBN:",
          "text": "My sensitivity to the crystals has, if anything, increased. I have to spend a great deal of energy just keeping myself together, because my impulse is to blast the damn things to flinders.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2006 January, John G. Hemry, Against All Enemies: A Paul Sinclair Novel, New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 243:",
          "text": "\"Then Lieutenant Pullman didn't express uncertainties about any aspect of his primary responsibility or of his other duties onboard the ship?\" / \"No. If anything, he acted like he was bored by instruction and training. As if he already knew everything. You know the type.\"",
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        "Used to suggest or state tentatively that something may be the case (often the opposite of something previously implied)."
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        "(idiomatic) Used to suggest or state tentatively that something may be the case (often the opposite of something previously implied)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "sense": "the opposite may be the case",
          "word": "on the contrary"
        }
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        "not-comparable"
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      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "used to suggest or state tentatively that something may be the case",
          "word": "要說真有什麼的話"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "yào shuō zhēn yǒu shénme de huà",
          "sense": "used to suggest or state tentatively that something may be the case",
          "word": "要说真有什么的话"
        },
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          "_dis1": "95 5",
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          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "used to suggest or state tentatively that something may be the case",
          "word": "pikemminkin"
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          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "used to suggest or state tentatively that something may be the case",
          "word": "wenn überhaupt"
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          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "used to suggest or state tentatively that something may be the case",
          "word": "eher"
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          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "used to suggest or state tentatively that something may be the case",
          "word": "doch eher"
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          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "es",
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          "sense": "used to suggest or state tentatively that something may be the case",
          "word": "si acaso"
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          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "used to suggest or state tentatively that something may be the case",
          "word": "om något"
        }
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        {
          "text": "What can you tell me, if anything, about this book?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1865 March 1, “Proceedings of a Military Commission Convened by Special Orders No. 23, Headquarters District of Colorado, Denver, Colorado Territory, Dated February 1, 1865, in the Case of Colonel J[ohn] M[ilton] Chivington, First Colorado Cavalry”, in Report of the Secretary of War, Communicating, in Compliance with a Resolution of the Senate of February 4, 1867, a Copy of the Evidence Taken at Denver and Fort Lyon, Colorado Territory, by a Military Commission, Ordered to Inquire into the Sand Creek massacre, November 1864 (39th Congress, 2nd Session, Senate Executive Document; no. 26), volume 2, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, published 1867, →OCLC, page 58:",
          "text": "Question. What, if anything, did the Indians say respecting their ability to procure the white captives then in possession of the Sioux? Answer. That they thought it would be difficult to do so, […]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Christopher Robichaud, “Bright Colors, Dark Times”, in Ben Dyer, editor, Supervillans and Philosophy: Sometimes, Evil is Its Own Reward (Popular Culture and Philosophy; 42), Chicago, La Salle, Ill.: Open Court Publishing Company, →ISBN, phase 2 (The Nature of Evil), page 62:",
          "text": "What are values in the first place? What, if anything, make value judgments correct or incorrect?",
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        }
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        "Used in questions when the speaker does not know for sure if the listener will have an answer."
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        "(idiomatic) Used in questions when the speaker does not know for sure if the listener will have an answer."
      ],
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          "_dis1": "7 93",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "used in questions when the speaker does not know for sure if the listener will have an answer",
          "word": "要說真有什麼的話"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 93",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "yào shuō zhēn yǒu shénme de huà",
          "sense": "used in questions when the speaker does not know for sure if the listener will have an answer",
          "word": "要说真有什么的话"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 93",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "used in questions when the speaker does not know for sure if the listener will have an answer",
          "word": "jos mitään"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 93",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "used in questions when the speaker does not know for sure if the listener will have an answer",
          "word": "eigentlich"
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          "_dis1": "7 93",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "used in questions when the speaker does not know for sure if the listener will have an answer",
          "word": "überhaupt"
        },
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          "_dis1": "7 93",
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          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "used in questions when the speaker does not know for sure if the listener will have an answer",
          "word": "om noe"
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  "word": "if anything"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
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    "English multiword terms",
    "English uncomparable adverbs",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
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    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations"
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          "text": "The situation is, if anything, worsening rather than improving.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "“Do you think she’s tall?” / “Oh, no. If anything, she’s short.”",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "“Do you think she’s tall?” / “Oh, yes. If anything, she’s very tall.”",
          "type": "example"
        },
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          "ref": "1754 December 18, J. Ready, “Mr Urban, I Send You a Remarkable Case in Surgery, with the Bone Itself that Came Away; …”, in Sylvanus Urban [pseudonym; Edward Cave], editor, The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, volume XXV, London: Printed by D[avid] Henry and R. Cave, at St John's Gate, published January 1755, →OCLC, page 14, column 2:",
          "text": "She [a girl who had her left tibia removed] is quite upright, has no defect either of ſtrength or motion in her leg, and ſcarcely any deformity; if any thing, 'tis a ſmall matter bigger than the other juſt above the ankle, occaſioned by the exuberance of the callus, by which the remains of the tibia are conſolidated with the fibula; […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997 September, Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Shadow Matrix (DAW Book Collectors; no. 1065), New York, N.Y.: DAW Books, →ISBN; republished as The Shadow Matrix: A Novel of Darkover, New York, N.Y.: DAW Books, 1999, →ISBN:",
          "text": "My sensitivity to the crystals has, if anything, increased. I have to spend a great deal of energy just keeping myself together, because my impulse is to blast the damn things to flinders.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006 January, John G. Hemry, Against All Enemies: A Paul Sinclair Novel, New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 243:",
          "text": "\"Then Lieutenant Pullman didn't express uncertainties about any aspect of his primary responsibility or of his other duties onboard the ship?\" / \"No. If anything, he acted like he was bored by instruction and training. As if he already knew everything. You know the type.\"",
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        "(idiomatic) Used to suggest or state tentatively that something may be the case (often the opposite of something previously implied)."
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          "text": "What can you tell me, if anything, about this book?",
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          "ref": "1865 March 1, “Proceedings of a Military Commission Convened by Special Orders No. 23, Headquarters District of Colorado, Denver, Colorado Territory, Dated February 1, 1865, in the Case of Colonel J[ohn] M[ilton] Chivington, First Colorado Cavalry”, in Report of the Secretary of War, Communicating, in Compliance with a Resolution of the Senate of February 4, 1867, a Copy of the Evidence Taken at Denver and Fort Lyon, Colorado Territory, by a Military Commission, Ordered to Inquire into the Sand Creek massacre, November 1864 (39th Congress, 2nd Session, Senate Executive Document; no. 26), volume 2, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, published 1867, →OCLC, page 58:",
          "text": "Question. What, if anything, did the Indians say respecting their ability to procure the white captives then in possession of the Sioux? Answer. That they thought it would be difficult to do so, […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Christopher Robichaud, “Bright Colors, Dark Times”, in Ben Dyer, editor, Supervillans and Philosophy: Sometimes, Evil is Its Own Reward (Popular Culture and Philosophy; 42), Chicago, La Salle, Ill.: Open Court Publishing Company, →ISBN, phase 2 (The Nature of Evil), page 62:",
          "text": "What are values in the first place? What, if anything, make value judgments correct or incorrect?",
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        "(idiomatic) Used in questions when the speaker does not know for sure if the listener will have an answer."
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      "sense": "the opposite may be the case",
      "word": "on the contrary"
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "used to suggest or state tentatively that something may be the case",
      "word": "要說真有什麼的話"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yào shuō zhēn yǒu shénme de huà",
      "sense": "used to suggest or state tentatively that something may be the case",
      "word": "要说真有什么的话"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "used to suggest or state tentatively that something may be the case",
      "word": "pikemminkin"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "used to suggest or state tentatively that something may be the case",
      "word": "wenn überhaupt"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "used to suggest or state tentatively that something may be the case",
      "word": "eher"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "used to suggest or state tentatively that something may be the case",
      "word": "doch eher"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "used to suggest or state tentatively that something may be the case",
      "word": "si acaso"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "used to suggest or state tentatively that something may be the case",
      "word": "om något"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "used in questions when the speaker does not know for sure if the listener will have an answer",
      "word": "要說真有什麼的話"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yào shuō zhēn yǒu shénme de huà",
      "sense": "used in questions when the speaker does not know for sure if the listener will have an answer",
      "word": "要说真有什么的话"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "used in questions when the speaker does not know for sure if the listener will have an answer",
      "word": "jos mitään"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "used in questions when the speaker does not know for sure if the listener will have an answer",
      "word": "eigentlich"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "used in questions when the speaker does not know for sure if the listener will have an answer",
      "word": "überhaupt"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "used in questions when the speaker does not know for sure if the listener will have an answer",
      "word": "om noe"
    }
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  "word": "if anything"
}