Definitions:

1. a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion noun
   • I have a thing about seafood.
2. a special abstraction noun
   • a thing of the spirit
3. a special objective noun
   • the thing is to stay in bounds
4. a special situation noun
   • this thing has got to end
5. a statement regarded as an object noun
   • to say the same thing in other terms
6. an action noun
   • how could you do such a thing?
7. an artifact noun
   • how does this thing work?
8. an entity that is not named specifically noun
   • I couldn't tell what the thing was
9. an event noun
   • a funny thing happened on the way to the...
10. any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence noun
    • The thing I liked most about the novel was how it made such big ideas accessible to a wider audience.

Synonyms:

• affair
• matter

NearBy Words:

• thing-in-itself
• thingamabob
• thingamajig
• thingmabob
• thingmajig
• things
• thingumabob
• thingumajig
• thingummy