Usually means: Excludes all except specified thing.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. anything but: Merriam-Webster
  2. anything but: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. anything but: Collins English Dictionary
  4. anything-but, anything but: Wordnik
  5. anything but: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. anything but: Wiktionary
  7. Anything but, anything but: Dictionary.com
  8. anything but: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Anything but: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. anything but: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  11. anything but: Merriam-Webster

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  1. anything but: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (anything but)

▸ adverb:  Not at all; quite the contrary (of).

Similar:
far from, not at all, not by any means, hardly, nothing, not a bit of it, not in the least, quite the contrary, nowhat, not in the slightest, more...

Opposite:
only, solely, exclusively

Phrases:
I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby, Anything but Love, anything but hot, do anything but, more...

Adjectives:
maybe, no more, eben, regardless, nothing, nother, zero, way, necessar, ever, no

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Similar:
far from, not at all, not by any means, hardly, nothing, not a bit of it, not in the least, quite the contrary, nowhat, not in the slightest, more...

Opposite:
only, solely, exclusively

Phrases:
I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby, Anything but Love, anything but hot, do anything but, more...

Adjectives:
maybe, no more, eben, regardless, nothing, nother, zero, way, necessar, ever, no



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