ANYMORE


Meaning of ANYMORE in English

[any.more] adv (14c) 1: any longer "I was not moving ~ with my feet --Anais Nin"

2: at the present time: now "hardly a day passes without rain ~" usage Although both anymore and any more are found in written use, in the 20th century anymore is the more common styling. Anymore is regularly used in negative "no one can be natural anymore --May Sarton", interrogative "do you read much anymore?", and conditional "if you do that anymore, I'll leave" contexts and in certain positive constructions "the Washingtonian is too sophisticated to believe anymore in solutions --Russell Baker". In many regions of the U.S. the use of anymore in sense

2. is quite common in positive constructions, esp. in speech "everybody's cool anymore --Bill White" "every time we leave the house anymore, I play a game called "Stump the Housebreaker" --Erma Bombeck". The positive use appears to have been of Midland origin, but it is now reported to be widespread in all speech areas of the U.S. except New England.

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