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
"Naught," he replied.
His efforts had been for naught.
"I think naught," said Myles gruffly.
"Faith, there's naught to be ashamed of!
There was naught in those certificates to be ashamed of.
"Naught fear I," said the boy, "neither darkness, nor the great bear, nor the were-wolf.
They were, it is true, forced to trade with England, but this obligation was set wholly at naught.
And naught was left King Alfred But shameful tears of rage, In the island in the river In the end of all his age.
He is a writer who desires above all things to see what men and women are really like--to extenuate nothing and to set down naught in malice.
But that "other world" is well concealed from man, that dehumanised, inhuman world, which is a celestial naught; and the bowels of existence do not speak unto man, except as man.