| English noun: nothing | |||
| 1. | nothing (quantity) a quantity of no importance | ||
| Samples | 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. | ||
| Synonyms | aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | relative quantity | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | bugger all, Fanny Adams, fuck all, nihil, sweet Fanny Adams | ||
| English adverb: nothing | |||
| 1. | nothing in no respect; to no degree | ||
| Samples | He looks nothing like his father. | ||