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oughtshould; duty or obligation: You ought to go to the memorial service.
Not to be confused with:aught – anything whatever; any part: for aught I know; a cipher; zeronaught – nothing; be without result: come to naught; lost; ruinedought 1 O0151600 (ôt)aux.v.1. Used to indicate obligation or duty: You ought to work harder than that.2. Used to indicate advisability or prudence: You ought to wear a raincoat.3. Used to indicate desirability: You ought to have been there; it was great fun.4. Used to indicate probability or likelihood: She ought to finish by next week.
[Middle English oughten, to be obliged to, from oughte, owned, from Old English āhte, past tense of āgan, to possess; see aik- in Indo-European roots.]Usage Note: Unlike other auxiliary verbs, ought usually takes to with its accompanying verb: We ought to go. Sometimes the accompanying verb is dropped if the meaning is clear: Should we begin soon? Yes, we ought to. In questions and negative sentences, especially those with contractions, to is also sometimes omitted: Oughtn't we be going soon? This omission of to, however, is not common in written English. Like must and auxiliary need, ought to does not change to show past tense: He said we ought to get moving along. · Usages such as He hadn't ought to come and She shouldn't ought to say that are common in many varieties of American English. They should be avoided in written English, however, in favor of the standard ought not to.
ought 2 O0151600 (ôt)pron. & adv. Chiefly British Variant of aught1.
ought 3 O0151600 (ôt)n. Variant of aught2.
ought 4 O0151600 (ôt)v. Obsolete A past participle of owe.ought (ɔːt) vb (foll by to; takes an infinitive or implied infinitive) 1. to indicate duty or obligation: you ought to pay your dues. 2. to express prudent expediency: you ought to be more careful with your money. 3. (usually with reference to future time) to express probability or expectation: you ought to finish this work by Friday. 4. to express a desire or wish on the part of the speaker: you ought to come next week. [Old English āhte, past tense of āgan to owe; related to Gothic aihta]Usage: In correct English, ought is not used with did or had. I ought not to do it, not I didn't ought to do it; I ought not to have done it, not I hadn't ought to have done it
ought (ɔːt) pron, adv a variant spelling of aught1
ought (ɔːt) n a less common word for nought1[C19: mistaken division of a nought as an ought; see nought]ought1 (ɔt)
auxiliary verb. 1. (used to express duty or moral obligation): Every citizen ought to help. 2. (used to express justice, moral rightness, or the like): He ought to be punished. 3. (used to express propriety, appropriateness, etc.): We ought to bring her some flowers. 4. (used to express probability or natural consequence): That ought to be our train now. n. 5. duty or obligation. [before 900; Middle English ought, aught, Old English āhte, past tense of āgan to owe] ought2 (ɔt)
n., adv. aught 1. ought3 (ɔt)
n. aught 2. Translationsought (oːt) – negative short form oughtn't (ˈoːtnt) – verb (usually with to). 1. used to indicate duty; should. You ought to help them; He oughtn't to have done that. 應該 应该（指道义上有责任） 2. used to indicate something that one could reasonably expect; should. He ought to have been able to do it. 應該 应该（表示可能性、期望）
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no better than (one) ought to beImmoral or perverse, especially having a tendency toward sexual promiscuity. Typically said of a woman. They are quite old-fashioned, and think a woman whose boyfriend spends the night is no better than she ought to be.See also: better, no, oughtThere ought to be a law! and TOBAL exclam. & comp. abb. There ought to be a law against what you just did or what I just saw happen. (Uttered when something happens that one does not like.) Listen to them talk like that. TOBAL! See also: ought, thereThesaurusSeeaught |