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Definition of Naught
1. Noun. A quantity of no importance. "I didn't hear zilch about it"
Generic synonyms: Relative Quantity
Specialized synonyms: Nihil, Bugger All, Fanny Adams, Fuck All, Sweet Fanny Adams
Derivative terms: Zero
2. Noun. Complete failure. "All my efforts led to naught"
Definition of Naught
1. n. Nothing.
2. adv. In no degree; not at all.
3. a. Of no value or account; worthless; bad; useless.
Definition of Naught
1. Noun. (UK Ireland NZ) (''now rare or archaic in US, Canada'') Zero. ¹
2. Noun. (UK Ireland NZ) (''now rare or archaic in US, Canada'') Nothing; nothingness. ¹
3. Pronoun. nothing ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Naught
1. a zero [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Naught
Literary usage of Naught
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"1198), king of Con- naught, had been succeeded by his brother, ... In 1235 Maurice
and Richard led an army to ravage Con- naught, but turned aside to ..."
2. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1874)
"But by removing all difference from it I get only naught as a result. ... At all
events, the thinking of negation in the universal form of naught gives as ..."
3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH [1819-1861~\ 693 SAY NOT THE STRUGGLE naught AVAILETH SAY not
the struggle naught availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, ..."
4. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"'Nay; I'm but afraid for thee, my poor lad, as knows naught,' says he. I set him
down on th' edge, an' th' beck run stiller, an' there was no more buzzin' ..."
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