naught
NounWordNet 3.0
Noun (2)
- 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: nothingnilnixnadanullaughtciphercyphergoose eggzerozilchzipzippo
- complete failure“all my efforts led to naught”
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
Naught \Naught\ (n[add]t), n. [OE. naught, nought, naht, nawiht, AS. n[=a]wiht, n[=a]uht, n[=a]ht; ne not + [=a] ever + wiht thing, whit; hence, not ever a whit. See No, adv. Whit, and cf. Aught, Not.]
1.Nothing. [Written also nought.] [1913 Webster]
Doth Job fear God for naught?— Job i. 9.[1913 Webster]
2.The arithmetical character 0; a cipher. See Cipher. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
Naught \Naught\, adv. In no degree; not at all. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
To wealth or sovereign power he naught applied. --Fairfax. [1913 Webster]
Naught \Naught\, a.
1.Of no value or account; worthless; bad; useless. [1913 Webster]
It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer.— Prov. xx. 14.[1913 Webster]
Go, get you to your house; begone, away! All will be naught else.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
Things naught and things indifferent.— Hooker.[1913 Webster]
2.Hence, vile; base; naughty. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
No man can be stark naught at once.— Fuller.[1913 Webster]