thing

Noun

• a separate and self-contained entity

• a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion
  • he has a thing about seafood
    
  • she has a thing about him
    

• a special objective
  • the thing is to stay in bounds
    

• any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence
  • the thing I like about her is ...
    

• an entity that is not named specifically
  • I couldn't tell what the thing was
    

• a statement regarded as an object
  • to say the same thing in other terms
    
  • how can you say such a thing?
    

• a vaguely specified concern
  • several matters to attend to
    
  • it is none of your affair
    
  • things are going well
    

• an event
  • a funny thing happened on the way to the...
    

• an artifact
  • how does this thing work?
    

• a special abstraction
  • a thing of the spirit
    
  • things of the heart
    

• an action
  • how could you do such a thing?
    

• a special situation
  • this thing has got to end
    
  • it is a remarkable thing
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  matter , affair