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
naught
(archaic) Nothing.
naught (countable and uncountable, plural naughts)
(archaic) Nothingness.
(chiefly, US, old-fashioned) Alternative spelling of nought
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
12 April 2025
(adjective) (used of eyes) lacking liveliness; “empty eyes”; “a glassy stare”; “his eyes were glazed over with boredom”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
