'Nought' definitions:
Definition of 'nought'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'nought'
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]
Synonyms of 'nought'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a little thing,
- aught,
- cipher,
- goose egg,
- hardly anything,
- inessential,
- insignificancy,
- marginal matter,
- matter of indifference,
- mere nothing,
- minor matter,
- nada,
- naught,
- 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,
- nullity,
- paltry affair,
- peu de chose,
- rien du tout,
- scarcely anything,
- technicality,
- thing of naught,
- zero,
- zilch