Word

naught, n.
(naughts)
freq. cnt. 1

a quantity of no importance
<noun.quantity> freq. cnt.: 148 freq. cnt.: 141 freq. cnt.: 6 freq. cnt.: 1

aught cipher cypher goose egg nada naught nil nix nothing null zero zilch zip zippo

sample sentences

"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"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

zero

semantic pointers

hypernym

relative quantity

hyponym

nihil bugger all, fuck all, Fanny Adams, sweet Fanny Adams

complete failure
<noun.act>

naught

sample sentences

"all my efforts led to naught"

semantic pointers

hypernym

failure