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
14 March 2025
(noun) the relation between two different kinds of organisms in which one receives benefits from the other by causing damage to it (usually not fatal damage)
The world’s most expensive coffee costs more than US$700 per kilogram. Asian palm civet – a cat-like creature in Indonesia, eats fruits, including select coffee cherries. It excretes partially digested seeds that produce a smooth, less acidic brew of coffee called kopi luwak.
