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11naught — , nought Although dictionaries increasingly treat the words as interchangeable, traditionally the first means nothing (as in His efforts came to naught ), while the second is used to signify the figure zero. The game is noughts and crosses… …
12naught — ► PRONOUN archaic ▪ nothing. ► NOUN N. Amer. ▪ nought. ORIGIN Old English …
13naught — /nɔt / (say nawt) noun 1. Archaic or Poetic nothing. 2. destruction, ruin, or complete failure: to bring to naught; to come to naught. 3. Chiefly US → nought (def. 1). –adjective Obsolete 4. worthless; useless. 5. lost; ruined. 6. morally bad;… …
14naught — /nawt/, n. 1. nothing. 2. a cipher (0); zero. 3. come to naught, to come to nothing; be without result or fruition; fail. 4. set at naught, to regard or treat as of no importance; disdain: He entered a milieu that set his ideals at naught. adj. 5 …
15naught — n. & adj. n. 1 archaic or literary nothing, nought. 2 US = NOUGHT. adj. (usu. predic.) archaic or literary worthless; useless. Phrases and idioms: bring to naught ruin; baffle. come to naught be ruined or baffled. set at naught disregard; despise …
16naught — I. pronoun also nought Etymology: Middle English nought, from Old English nāwiht, from nā no + wiht creature, thing more at no, wight Date: before 12th century nothing < efforts came to naught > II. noun also …
17nought — [[t]nɔ͟ːt[/t]] noughts (The spelling naught is also used for meaning 2.) 1) NUM Nought is the number 0. [mainly BRIT] Sales rose by nought point four per cent last month... Houses are graded from nought to ten for energy efficiency... When you… …
18naught — or nought [[t]nɔt[/t]] n. 1) nothing 2) a cipher (0); zero 3) lost; ruined 4) worthless; useless 5) Obs. not • come to naught Etymology: bef. 900; ME; OE nauht, nāwiht=nā no I+wiht thing. Cf. nought, wight I, whit …
19naught — pronoun archaic nothing. noun N. Amer. variant spelling of nought. Phrases come to naught be ruined or foiled. set at naught archaic disregard; despise. Origin OE nāwiht, wuht, from nā no + wiht thing (see wight) …
20naught — Synonyms and related words: 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 …
