'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'

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Words containing 'Naught'