Origin: Germanic
Old English suffix
Naught has 5 different meanings across 3 categories:
Noun
· Pron
· Num
1
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
complete failure
"all my efforts led to naught"
1
Alternative spelling of nought
Example Sentences
"it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"
noun
"reduced to nil all the work we had done"
noun
"we racked up a pathetic goose egg"
noun
"it was all for naught"
noun
"I didn't hear zilch about it"
noun
"all my efforts led to naught"
noun
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