nothing; zero; nought

nothing; zero; nought
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  • nought — 1. noun a) Nothing; something which does not exist. b) A thing or person of no worth or value; nil. 2. adjective Wicked, immoral …   Wiktionary

  • zero — Synonyms and related words: absolute zero, aught, blank, boiling point, cipher, concentrate on, dew point, duck, dud, dummy, fix on, focus on, freezing point, goose egg, hollow man, home in on, insignificancy, jackstraw, lay figure, man of straw …   Moby Thesaurus

  • zero — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. nothing; naught, nought; cipher, none, zip (inf.), goose egg (sl.), zilch (sl.); (in games) love, blank; nobody, not a soul. See insubstantiality. zero hour II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A cipher] Syn.… …   English dictionary for students

  • nothing — noun 1) there s nothing I can do Syn: not a thing, zero; N.English nowt; informal zilch, sweet FA, not a dicky bird; Brit.; informal damn all, not a sausage; N.Amer.; informal zip, nada, diddly squat 2) the price fell to nothing …   Synonyms and antonyms dictionary

  • nothing — I. n. 1. No thing, no quantity, no part, no degree. 2. Non existence, nihility, inexistence, nihilism, nonentity, nothingness, nullity. 3. Trifle, bagatelle, small matter, thing of no importance, matter of no consequence. 4. Cipher, zero, nought …   New dictionary of synonyms

  • nought — [no:t US no:t] number 1.) BrE the number 0 = ↑zero ▪ A billion is 1 with 9 noughts after it. nought point one/two/three etc (=0.1, 0.2 etc) 2.) old use used in some expressions to mean nothing ▪ Peace negotiations came to nought (=were not… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • nought — (n.) O.E. nowiht nothing, variant of nawiht (see NAUGHT (Cf. naught)). Meaning zero, cipher is from early 15c. Expression for nought in vain is late 13c. To come to nought is from 1590s …   Etymology dictionary

  • nought — [nôt] pron. [ME < OE nowiht < ne, not (see NO1) + owiht, awiht, AUGHT] nothing; naught n. 1. Arith. the figure zero (0) 2. alt. sp. of NAUGHT adj. Obs. NAUGHT …   English World dictionary

  • zero — [n] nothing aught, blank, bottom, cipher, insignificancy, love*, lowest point, nada*, nadir, naught, nil*, nix*, nobody*, nonentity, nought, nullity, oblivion, ought, rock bottom*, scratch, shutout, void, zilch*, zip*, zot*; concepts 407,784 Ant …   New thesaurus

  • nothing — noun 1) all my efforts add up to nothing Syn: not a thing, not anything, nil, zero, naught/nought; informal zilch, zip, nada, diddly squat, squat Ant: something 2) forget it it s nothing …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • nought — naught, nought Naught is an archaic or literary word meaning ‘nothing’ and it survives chiefly in phrases such as come to naught or set at naught. In BrE nought is the term for the digit 0 (zero in AmE). The game called noughts and crosses in BrE …   Modern English usage

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