Definitions for naught
nɔtnaught

Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zipponoun

   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"

2. naughtnoun

   complete failure

   "all my efforts led to naught"

Wiktionary(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. naughtnoun

   (now rare or archaic in US, Canada) Zero.

   Yet another naught on the scoreboard for the home team.

   Etymology: From the naught, nought, naht, nawiht, from nawiht, "no whit".

2. naughtnoun

   (now rare or archaic in US, Canada) Nothing; nothingness.

   Etymology: From the naught, nought, naht, nawiht, from nawiht, "no whit".

3. naughtpronoun

   nothing

   Etymology: From the naught, nought, naht, nawiht, from nawiht, "no whit".

Webster Dictionary(2.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Naughtadverb

   nothing

   Etymology: [OE. naught, nought, naht, nawiht, AS. nwiht, nuht, nht; ne not + ever + wiht thing, whit; hence, not ever a whit. See No, adv. Whit, and cf. Aught, Not.]

2. Naughtadverb

   the arithmetical character 0; a cipher. See Cipher

   Etymology: [OE. naught, nought, naht, nawiht, AS. nwiht, nuht, nht; ne not + ever + wiht thing, whit; hence, not ever a whit. See No, adv. Whit, and cf. Aught, Not.]

3. Naughtadverb

   in no degree; not at all

   Etymology: [OE. naught, nought, naht, nawiht, AS. nwiht, nuht, nht; ne not + ever + wiht thing, whit; hence, not ever a whit. See No, adv. Whit, and cf. Aught, Not.]

4. Naughtadjective

   of no value or account; worthless; bad; useless

   Etymology: [OE. naught, nought, naht, nawiht, AS. nwiht, nuht, nht; ne not + ever + wiht thing, whit; hence, not ever a whit. See No, adv. Whit, and cf. Aught, Not.]

5. Naughtadjective

   hence, vile; base; naughty

   Etymology: [OE. naught, nought, naht, nawiht, AS. nwiht, nuht, nht; ne not + ever + wiht thing, whit; hence, not ever a whit. See No, adv. Whit, and cf. Aught, Not.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(2.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Naught

   nawt, n. no-whit, nothing.—adv. in no degree.—adj. of no value or account: worthless: bad.—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. náht, náwiht—ná, not, wiht, a whit.]

Matched Categories

1. • Failure
   • Relative Quantity

How to pronounce naught?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of naught in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of naught in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of naught in a Sentence

1. Lori Lightfoot:

   If people don't feel safe, literally nothing else matters. We've made tremendous progress, our economy is opening up, we did a vaccine distribution and other Covid related mitigations, all of that is for naught if people can't walk down the street.

2. William Shakespeare:

   Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

3. Anuj Somany:

   Better to write just a few good quotes that have the world of wisdom to be admired or sought by the best brain than a lot of books or thoughts, which are actually worth a naught and yet liked by many ordinary people.

4. Mahabharata:

   Do naught to others which, if done to thee, would cause thee pain: this is the sum of duty.*

5. Zhou Li:

   There's too much panic around defaults, whenever a company defaults, people would assume the (bond) value would be wiped out to naught. But that's not the case.

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