anything but

idiom

: not at all

He looked anything but happy.

Though he said he was happy, he looked anything but.

This problem is anything but new.

Examples of anything but in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

New York Fashion Week ended with a bang, and although London Fashion Week arrived and finished with but a whisper, the street style scene was anything but. —Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2025

The content was funny, yet his real life was anything but. —Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 25 Feb. 2025

And though the wait isn’t over just yet, Rihanna — whose last studio album was 2016’s Anti, and who recently sent fans into a frenzy after she was spotted hitting the recording studio — assured listeners that her album will be anything but subpar. —Bailey Richards, People.com, 23 Feb. 2025

And yet, the cumulative effect of this literary and cultural exploration is anything but prescriptive (whatever the messages of some of the films themselves). —Rachel Vorona Cote, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2025

Rhymes for anything but

• abut
• catgut
• chesnut
• chestnut
• donut
• doughnut
• groundnut
• haircut
• hindgut
• midgut
• precut
• rebut