'Naught' definitions:
Definition of 'naught'
From: WordNet
noun
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" [syn: nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo]
noun
Complete failure; "all my efforts led to naught"
Definition of 'Naught'
From: 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]
Definition of 'Naught'
From: GCIDE
- Naught \Naught\, adv. In no degree; not at all. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- To wealth or sovereign power he naught applied. --Fairfax. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Naught'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'naught'
From: 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