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What's The Definition Of Naught?
[n] complete failure; "all my efforts led to naught"
[n] a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it" Synonyms | Synonyms for Naught: aught | cipher | cypher | goose egg | nada | nil | nix | nothing | null | zero | zilch | zip Related Terms | Find terms related to Naught: a little thing | aught | cipher | collapse | destruction | disaster | failure | goose egg | hardly anything | inessential | insignificancy | marginal matter | matter of indifference | mere nothing | minor matter | nada | nichts | nihil | nihility | nil | nix | no great matter | no such thing | nothing | nothing at all | nothing in particular | nothing on earth | nothing to signify | nothing whatever | nought | nullity | ought | paltry affair | peu de chose | rien du tout | ruin | scarcely anything | technicality | thing of naught | wind | zero | zilch See Also | bugger all | failure | Fanny Adams | fuck all | nihil | relative quantity | sweet Fanny Adams Naught In Webster's Dictionary \Naught\, n. [OE. naught, nought, naht, nawiht, AS.
n?wiht, n?uht, n?ht; ne not + ? ever + wiht thing, whit;
hence, not ever a whit. See {No}, adv. {Whit}, and cf.
{Aught}, {Not}.]
1. Nothing. [Written also {nought}.]
Doth Job fear God for naught? --Job i. 9.
2. The arithmetical character 0; a cipher. See {Cipher}.
{To set at naught}, to treat as of no account; to disregard;
to despise; to defy; to treat with ignominy. ``Ye have set
at naught all my counsel.'' --Prov. i. 25.
\Naught\, adv. In no degree; not at all. --Chaucer. To wealth or sovereign power he naught applied. --Fairfax. \Naught\, a. 1. Of no value or account; worthless; bad; useless. It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer. --Prov. xx. 14. Go, get you to your house; begone, away! All will be naught else. --Shak. Things naught and things indifferent. --Hooker. 2. Hence, vile; base; naughty. [Obs.] No man can be stark naught at once. --Fuller. |
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