What does naught mean?
Definitions for naught
nɔtnaught
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Princeton's WordNet
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"
naughtnoun
complete failure
"all my efforts led to naught"
Wiktionary
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".
naughtnoun
(now rare or archaic in US, Canada) Nothing; nothingness.
Etymology: From the naught, nought, naht, nawiht, from nawiht, "no whit".
naughtpronoun
nothing
Etymology: From the naught, nought, naht, nawiht, from nawiht, "no whit".
Webster Dictionary
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.]
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.]
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.]
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.]
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
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.]
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of naught in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of naught in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of naught in a Sentence
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.
Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.
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.
Do naught to others which, if done to thee, would cause thee pain: this is the sum of duty.*
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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