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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
nought \nought\, n. adv.
see naught. --chaucer.
1913 webster
see also:
naught
- [2] : 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.
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
see also:
no whit aught not nought cipher
to set at naught
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
nought
n : a mathematical element that when added to another number
yields the same number syn: zero, 0, cipher, cypher
see also:
zero 0 cipher cypher
- [4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
35 moby thesaurus words for "nought":
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
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