Definition of naught Naught

/nษ”หˆt/ - [not] - naught

We found 11 definitions of naught from 5 different sources.

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What does naught mean?

WordNet

WordNet by Princeton University

Noun

Plural: naughts

naught - complete failure; "all my efforts led to naught"
naught - 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"
  nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, zero, zilch, zip, zippo
  relative quantity a quantity relative to some purpose
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary ๐Ÿ“˜

  • naught (adv.)
    Nothing.
  • naught (adv.)
    The arithmetical character 0; a cipher. See Cipher.
  • naught (adv.)
    In no degree; not at all.
  • naught (a.)
    Of no value or account; worthless; bad; useless.
  • naught (a.)
    Hence, vile; base; naughty.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary ๐Ÿ“•

  • naught
    nawt, n. no-whit, nothing.โ€”adv. in no degree.โ€”adj. of no value or account: worthless: bad.โ€”Be naught, an obsolete form of malediction; Come to naught, to come to nothing, to fail; Set at naught, to treat as of no account, to despise. [Another form of nought. A.S. nรกht, nรกwihtโ€”nรก, not, wiht, a whit.]

Part of speech

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  • naught, noun, singular of naughts.
  • naught, adjective.

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