NAUGHT

naught

(noun) complete failure; “all my efforts led to naught”

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

(noun) 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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Pronoun

naught

(archaic) Nothing.

Noun

naught (countable and uncountable, plural naughts)

(archaic) Nothingness.

(chiefly, US, old-fashioned) Alternative spelling of nought

Numeral

naught

(chiefly, US, old-fashioned) Alternative spelling of nought

Source: Wiktionary

Naught, n. Etym: [OE. naught, nought, naht, nawiht, AS. n, n, n; ne not + wiht thing, whit; hence, not ever a whit. See No, adv. Whit, and cf. Aught, Not.]

1. Nothing. [Written also nought.] Doth Job fear God for naught Job i. 9.

2. The arithmetical character 0; a cipher. See Cipher. To set at naught, to treat as of no account; to disregard; to despise; to defy; to treat with ignominy. "Ye have set at naught all my counsel." Prov. i. 25.

Naught, adv.

Definition: In no degree; not at all. Chaucer. To wealth or sovereign power he naught applied. Fairfax.

Naught, a.

1. Of no value or account; worthless; bad; useless. It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer. Prov. xx. 14. Go, get you to your house; begone, away! All will be naught else. Shak. Things naught and things indifferent. Hooker.

2. Hence, vile; base; naughty. [Obs.] No man can be stark naught at once. Fuller.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition