'Nix' definitions:
Definition of 'nix'
(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]
verb
Definition of 'Nix'
From: GCIDE
- Nix \Nix\, n.; fem. Nixe. [G. Cf. 1st Nick.] (Teut. Myth.) One of a class of water spirits, commonly described as of a mischievous disposition. [1913 Webster]
- The treacherous nixes who entice men to a watery death. --Tylor. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'nix'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abnegation,
- aught,
- cipher,
- contradiction,
- Davy,
- Davy Jones,
- declension,
- declination,
- declinature,
- declining,
- denial,
- deprivation,
- disagreement,
- disallowance,
- disclaimer,
- disclamation,
- disobedience,
- dissent,
- fat chance,
- forget it,
- fresh-water nymph,
- goose egg,
- holding back,
- kelpie,
- kill,
- limniad,
- man fish,
- mermaid,
- merman,
- nada,
- naiad,
- naught,
- nay,
- naysaying,
- negation,
- negative,
- negative answer,
- negative attitude,
- negativeness,
- negativism,
- negativity,
- Neptune,
- Nereid,
- nichts,
- nihil,
- nil,
- nit,
- nixie,
- no,
- no sirree,
- no such thing,
- no way,
- nonacceptance,
- noncompliance,
- nonconsent,
- nonobservance,
- nope,
- not a chance,
- not much,
- nothing,
- nothing at all,
- nothing doing,
- nothing on earth,
- nothing whatever,
- ocean nymph,
- Oceanid,
- Oceanus,
- Poseidon,
- recantation,
- refusal,
- rejection,
- repudiation,
- retention,
- sea nymph,
- sea-maid,
- sea-maiden,
- siren,
- Thetis,
- thing of naught,
- thumbs-down,
- Triton,
- turndown,
- under no circumstances,
- undine,
- unwillingness,
- water god,
- water spirit,
- water sprite,
- wind,
- withholding,
- zero,
- zilch