anybody

∞ 1.0

A person who may be anyone when you do not say which one

pronoun
/ˈɛnibədi/

: alguien

Does anybody have anything to say?
anybody else
know anybody
anybody who wants

I'm not your Negro. Anybody here? So. OK.

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Examples

Young people, you don't need anybody's permission to become great.
We don't want anybody to get hurt.

The China Syndrome (1979)
It's one of those things that anybody can can do.
And that responsibility does not rest on anybody but ourselves.
We're better off up here in case anybody comes home.

Lisa Frankenstein (2024)
I mean, it could have been anybody passing.

Straw Dogs (1971)
Never let anybody tell you that you can't.
Anybody know where they're going?

Stagecoach (1939)
If anybody is interested in joining the club, they are welcome to attend the first meeting.
I don't think anybody noticed the mistake I made during the presentation.

Synonyms

anyone

vsanybody

∞ 1.0

Any person at all without saying who

is the same idea but expressed with a different pronoun form

whosoever

vsanybody

Archaic

11 8.3

Any person, no matter who they are

is the neutral way to refer to any person without emphasis

Antonyms

nobody

∞ 1.0

No person at all

Idioms

anybody who is anybody

Informal

7.0

People who are important or well known in a field

Surface Forms

anybody subject case

anybody object case

anybody's possessive determiner

anybody possessive pronoun

anybody reflexive

Morphology

anybody = any + body (transparent) = any + body

The compound is a clear compositional combination of 'any' + 'body' meaning 'any person', a productive and semantically direct formation.

Etymology

Anybody is made of any and body, where body here means 'person' rather than just a physical body. So anybody means 'any person at all', like somebody or nobody, and is used when you do not say which person you mean.