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English noun: naught

1. naught (quantity) a quantity of no importance


SamplesIt 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.


Synonymsaught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo


Broader (hypernym)relative quantity


Narrower (hyponym)bugger all, Fanny Adams, fuck all, nihil, sweet Fanny Adams

2. naught (act) complete failure


SamplesAll my efforts led to naught.


Broader (hypernym)failure









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