naught
noun
1 naught
A quantity of no importance:
— It was all for naught.
synonyms: aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo ... show more.
Roget 4:
unsubstantiality†,
insubstantiality;
nothingness,
nihility†;
no degree,
no part,
no quantity,
no thing.
nothing,
naught,
nil,
nullity,
zero,
cipher,
no one,
nobody;
never a one,
ne'er a one [Contr.];
no such thing,
none in the world;
nothing whatever,
nothing at all,
nothing on earth;
not a particle
etc.
(smallness)
32;
all talk,
moonshine,
stuff and nonsense;
matter of no importance,
matter of no consequence.
thing of naught,
man of straw,
John Doe and Richard Roe,
faggot voter;
nominis umbra [Lat.],
nonentity;
flash in the pan,
vox et praeterea nihil [Lat.].
shadow;
phantom
etc.
(fallacy of vision)
443;
dream
etc.
(imagination)
515;
ignis fatuus [Lat.]
etc.
(luminary)
423;
such stuff as dreams are made of"
[Tempest];
air,
thin air,
vapor;
bubble
etc.
353;
baseless fabric of a vision"
[Tempest];
mockery.
hollowness,
blank;
void
etc.
(absence)
187.
inanity,
fool's paradise.
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Roget 101:
zero,
nothing;
null,
nul,
naught,
nought,
void;
cipher,
goose egg;
none,
nobody,
no one;
nichts [G.],
nixie [Slang],
nix [Slang];
zilch [Slang],
zip [Slang],
zippo [Slang];
not a soul;
ame qui vive [Fr.];
absence
etc.
187;
unsubstantiality
etc.
4†.
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Dutch: iets, nul, niks, niets
Polish: zero, nic
2 naught
Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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