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, zippo(noun)

   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. naught(noun)

   complete failure

   "all my efforts led to naught"

Wiktionary(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. naught(Noun)

   (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. naught(Noun)

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

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

3. naught(Pronoun)

   nothing

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

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

1. Naught(adverb)

   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. Naught(adverb)

   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. Naught(adverb)

   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. Naught(adj)

   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. Naught(adj)

   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.]

How to pronounce naught?

1. Alex

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

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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. Madame Swetchine:

   In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.

2. 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.

3. Howard Flax:

   If we are not able to recoup some of these losses during this period, it's all for naught.

4. Mahabharata:

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

5. Rob Murphy:

   All you have to do to get rid of an epidemic is to have The R-naught factor be less than one. As soon as it's less than one -- each person gives it to less than one other person -- it dies off, the problem with The R-naught factor is, it's very nice to describe the average. However, in medicine, as in many things, if you find an average person let me know ; I want to go meet them.

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