 Re: nothing etc.
from here, my best advice would be to look at some other dictionaries and see how they differ in their definition of 'anything.' I just checked and the oxford american says: "used to refer to a thing, no matter what"
From looking at both, I am understanding that it should be read as "ANYTHING is a thing, regardless of what that thing is (no matter what that thing is)"
so: 'no matter what' is not meant to be a synonym, but a qualifier for the meaning of what kind of thing anything can be.
Hope that helps. |