anymore

adverb

any·​more ˌe-nē-ˈmȯr 

1

: any longer

I was not moving anymore with my feet

—Anaïs Nin

2

: at the present time : now, nowadays

Hardly a day passes without rain anymore.

Anymore vs. Any More: Usage Guide

Although both anymore and any more are found in written use, in current writing 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, especially 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.

Synonyms

• currently
• now
• nowadays
• presently
• right now
• today

Examples of anymore in a Sentence

I never see them anymore.

they don't sell that kind of sandwich anymore

Recent Examples on the Web

Brands can’t streamline their focus on the traditional EU, U.S., and Chinese markets anymore. —Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 6 Jan. 2025

Having a computer spit out images isn’t new anymore, thanks to generative AI models like Stable Diffusion and DALL-E. New programs from Runway, OpenAI, Tencent and Kuaishou can now generate whole video from a text prompt. —Fortune Editors, Fortune Asia, 6 Jan. 2025

Simply being a great-tasting whiskey isn’t enough anymore. —Noel Burgess, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025

But a 2023 study by India's water ministry found that the river's murky water isn't fit for drinking or bathing anymore, in part because Vrindavan's drains empty out untreated sewage into the water. —Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 5 Jan. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Kids Definition

anymore

adverb

any·​more ˌen-ē-ˈmō(ə)r 

-ˈmȯ(ə)r

: at the present time : nowadays

never see them anymore