Synonyms:
nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose_egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo
Meaning: 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"
Usage examples
But tell me, Robin Ingoldsby, dost know aught more of this matter?
Poor thing! we must not ask aught about her, but that she needs help.
Have I ever murmured at aught that came to pass, or wished it otherwise?
In vain I ransack the bushes that carry the webs: I never find aught that realizes my hopes.
I'm a poor black feckless sheep--childer may clem for aught I can do, unless, parson, yo'd help me?'
If ye allow me aught to clothe me, 'twill be of your bounty, and each of you shall traffic with the folk for himself.
For with his eye he could not follow it So as to see aught else than flame alone, Even as a little cloud ascending upward,
The animal knows its trade thoroughly, but it does not know and will never know aught else, being incapable of originality.
Even as he returns who goeth down Sometimes to clear an anchor, which has grappled Reef, or aught else that in the sea is hidden,
And I, who with them on the cross am placed, Jacopo Rusticucci was; and truly My savage wife, more than aught else, doth harm me."