[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

naught \naught\, adv.
   in no degree; not at all. --chaucer.
   1913 webster

         to wealth or sovereign power he naught applied.
                                                  --fairfax.
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[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
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            go, get you to your house; begone, away
            all will be naught else.              --shak.
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            things naught and things indifferent. --hooker.
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   2. hence, vile; base; naughty. obs.
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            no man can be stark naught at once.   --fuller.
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[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

naught \naught\ naddt, n. oe. naught, nought, naht, nawiht,
   as. n=awiht, n=auht, n=aht; 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.
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   2. the arithmetical character 0; a cipher. see cipher.
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   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
see also:
no whit aught not nought cipher 
to set at naught 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

naught
     n 1: 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, zero, zilch, zip
     2: complete failure; "all my efforts led to naught"
see also:
nothing nil nix nada null aught 
cipher cypher goose egg zero zilch 
zip 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

42 moby thesaurus words for "naught":
   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, nihility, nil, nix,
   no great matter, no such thing, nothing, nothing at all,
   nothing in particular, nothing on earth, nothing to signify,
   nothing whatever, nought, nullity, ought, paltry affair,
   peu de chose, rien du tout, ruin, scarcely anything, technicality,
   thing of naught, wind, zero, zilch

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