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naught
naughtnothing; be without result: come to naught; lost; ruined
Not to be confused with:aught – anything whatever; any part: for aught I know; a cipher; zeroought – should; duty or obligation: You ought to go to the memorial service.naught also nought N0032600 (nôt)n.1. Nonexistence; nothingness.2. The figure 0; a cipher; a zero.pron. Nothing: All their work was for naught.adj.1. Nonexistent.2. Insignificant.
[Middle English, from Old English nāwiht : nā, no; see ne in Indo-European roots + wiht, thing; see wekti- in Indo-European roots.]naught (nɔːt) n1. archaic or literary nothing or nothingness; ruin or failure2. (Mathematics) a variant spelling (esp US) of nought3. set at naught to have disregard or scorn for; disdainadvarchaic or literary not at all: it matters naught. adjobsolete worthless, ruined, or wicked[Old English nāwiht, from nā no1 + wiht thing, person; see wight1, whit]naught or nought (nɔt)
n. 1. nothing. 2. a cipher (0); zero. adj. Archaic. 3. lost; ruined. 4. worthless; useless. adv. 5. Obs. not. Idioms: come to naught, to end in failure. [before 900; Middle English; Old English nauht, nāwiht=nā no1 + wiht thing. compare nought, wight1, whit] Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  naught - 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"goose egg, nada, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo, aught, cypher, cipherrelative quantity - a quantity relative to some purposenihil - (Latin) nil; nothing (as used by a sheriff after an unsuccessful effort to serve a writ); "nihil habet" | | 2. | naught - complete failure; "all my efforts led to naught"failure - an act that fails; "his failure to pass the test" |
Translationsnaught (noːt) noun nothing. 無 无naught
come to naughtTo be totally unsuccessful or amount to nothing. Our efforts to keep the farm came to naught in the end. All those hours I spent researching my graduate thesis have come to naught.See also: come, naughtcome to nothingTo result in no tangible or appreciable difference; to fail. Well, all of our efforts came to nothing in the end, really. The bank decided to foreclose on us regardless of the money we raised.See also: come, nothing(all) for naughtIn vain; for nothing. Said of an effort that has resulted in failure. All of my hard work on that budget report was for naught when the computer system crashed.See also: naughtcome to nothing and come to naughtto amount to nothing; to be worthless. So all my hard work comes to nothing. Yes, the whole project comes to naught.See also: come, nothingcome to nothingAlso, come to naught. Fail, as in All his efforts have come to nothing, or The last round of peace talks came to naught. The first term dates from the mid-1500s, the variant from the early 1600s. See also: come, nothingcome to ˈnothing, not ˈcome to anything/much not have a successful result: The latest attempt to end the dispute came to nothing. ♢ They had a scheme for making a lot of money quickly, but it never came to anything.See also: come, nothingall for naughtEverything done has been in vain. Today a poetic word for “nothing,” naught formerly meant “morally bad” or “worthless.” Thus the King James version of the first Book of Kings (2:19) says, “The water is naught and the ground barren.”See also: all, naughtnaught
Related to naught: nought, soughtSynonyms for naughtnoun a quantity of no importanceSynonyms- goose egg
- nada
- nil
- nix
- nothing
- null
- zero
- zilch
- zip
- zippo
- aught
- cypher
- cipher
Related Words- relative quantity
- nihil
- bugger all
- Fanny Adams
- fuck all
- sweet Fanny Adams
noun complete failureRelated Words |