anything but en · ADV
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not at all; quite the contrary (of).
As a matter of fact, the methods of primitive accumulation are anything but idyllic.
1887, Karl Marx, chapter 26, in Samuel Moore, Edward Aveling, transl., Das Kapital:It wasn't cheap. Anything but.
"They certainly are nice people," I assented to my wife's observation, using the colloquial phrase with a consciousness that it was anything but "nice" English, "and I'll bet that their three children are better brought up than most of----"
1890, Henry Cuyler Bunner, The Nice People:It started out as a lively party, now it is anything but.
1893, Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Sinding (illustrator), William Archer (translator), Eskimo Life, Chapter II: Appearance and Dress, The pure-bred Eskimo would at first glance seem to most of us Europeans anything but beautiful.
Translations (12)
ro opusul (not at all) · ro orice altceva (not at all) · cmn 根本不 (not at all) · cmn 決不 /决不 (not at all) · cmn 一點也不 /一点也不 (not at all) · fr tout sauf (not at all) · fi kaikkea muuta kuin (not at all) · pt tudo menos isso (not at all) · pt tudo menos (not at all) · it tutt'altro (not at all) · ru что угодно, но не (not at all) · ro deloc (not at all)