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CIDE DICTIONARY
naught, n. [OE. naught, nought, naht, nawiht, AS. n, n, n; ne not + ever + wiht thing, whit; hence, not ever a whit. See No, adv. Whit, and cf. Aught, Not.].
- Nothing. [1913 Webster]"Doth Job fear God for naught?" [1913 Webster]
- The arithmetical character 0; a cipher. See Cipher. [1913 Webster]
naught, adv.
In no degree; not at all. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
"To wealth or sovereign power he naught applied." [1913 Webster]
naught, a.
- Of no value or account; worthless; bad; useless. [1913 Webster]"It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer." [1913 Webster]"Go, get you to your house; begone, away!
All will be naught else." [1913 Webster]"Things naught and things indifferent." [1913 Webster] - Hence, vile; base; naughty. [1913 Webster]"No man can be stark naught at once." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
naught, n. & adj.
--n.
1 archaic or literary nothing, nought.
2 US = NOUGHT.
--adj. (usu. predic.) archaic or literary worthless; useless.
--n.
1 archaic or literary nothing, nought.
2 US = NOUGHT.
--adj. (usu. predic.) archaic or literary worthless; useless.
Idiom
bring to naught ruin; baffle. come to naught be ruined or baffled. set at naught disregard; despise.
Etymology
OE nawiht, -wuht f. na (see NO(2)) + wiht WIGHT
THESAURUS
naught
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, zilchROGET THESAURUS
naught
Unsubstantiality
N 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, no such thing, none in the world, nothing whatever, nothing at all, nothing on earth, not a particle, 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, nonentity, flash in the pan, vox et praeterea nihil, shadow, phantom, dream, ignis fatuus, such stuff as dreams are made of, air, thin air, vapor, bubble, baseless fabric of a vision, mockery, hollowness, blank, void, inanity, fool's paradise, unsubstantial, baseless, groundless, ungrounded, without foundation, having no foundation, visionary, immaterial, spectral, dreamy, shadowy, ethereal, airy, cloud built, cloud formed, gossamery, illusory, insubstantial, unreal, vacant, vacuous, empty, eviscerated, blank, hollow, nominal, null, inane, there's nothing in it, an ocean of dreams without a sound.Zero
N zero, nothing, null, nul, naught, nought, void, cipher, goose egg, none, nobody, no one, nichts, nixie, nix, zilch, zip, zippo, not a soul, ame qui vive, absence, unsubstantiality, not one, not a one, not any, nary a one, not a, never a, not a whit of, not an iota of, not a drop of, not a speck of, not a jot, not a trace of, not a hint of, not a smidgen of, not a suspicion of, not a shadow of, neither hide nor hair of.Also see definition of "naught" in Bible Study Dictionaries
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