Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Variant of naught.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
- n. Nothing; something which does not exist.
- n. A thing or person of no worth or value; nil.
- n. Not any quantity of number; zero; the score of no points in a game.
- n. The figure or character representing, or having the shape of, zero.
- adj. obsolete Good for nothing; worthless.
- adj. Wicked, immoral.
- v. To abase, to set at nought.
- adv. To no extent; in no way; not at all.
- adv. Not.
- pro. Nothing; zero.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. See naught.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
Etymologies
- Middle English noght, from Old English nōwiht, which in turn comes from ne-ō-wiht which was a phrase used as an emphatic no meaning "not a thing". Eventually this degenerated into 'nought', 'nawt' and then 'not'. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I'm despert -- I'm despert, as far as I think of myself, but there's nought -- _nought_ -- as I wouldn't do to serve”
“Our electronic search ended in nought but disappointment.”
“(That so many promised family reunions have come to nought is indicative of how poorly, on the whole, both sets of leaders — not just the tyrants in the North — have served the Korean people.)”
“She launched the festival, and in the first year had 800 visitors, in the second year, 12,000, yes, that nought is 12,000, and now has so many people who want to come along, that they have big-screen monitors and overflow tents.”
“[195] "The Hindus call the nought explicitly _ ['s] [= u] nyabindu_ 'the dot marking a blank,' and about 500 A.D. they marked it by a simple dot, which latter is commonly used in inscriptions and MSS. in order to mark a blank, and which was later converted into a small circle.”
“He started and gazed around "Solitude!" cried he, with a faint smile; "nought is here, but Wallace and his sorrow.”
“I've never heard her called nought but Bess, you see. ”
“All the previous corruption sagas have come to nought, which is partly why many Nigerians are cynical about the anti-corruption moves.”
“Extend this annihilation of a first object to a second, then to a third, and so on as long as you please: the nought is the limit toward which the operation tends.”
“This law enables us to find, with a very little trial, that the smallest number containing nine of the ten digits (calling nought a digit) that is divisible by 11 is”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘nought’.
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
Laban, circumcise, beget, Esau, Rebekah, speckle, Sodom, Pharaoh, Canaanite, Canaan, Jacob, Lot and 1286 more...
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Inside Out Jokes
So you just came to wordie and are thoroughly confused? Me too. Here's a place to list all of those repeating references along with a link to the original joke. Because wordie's too cool to keep...
knot, specific excrement, klein bottle, madeupical, hilarious misunde..., histrionic, todally, alsome, nought, schadenfreudgeon, mi-vox, chad and 2 more...
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noughty words
fearnought, dreadnought, nought, talknought, noughties, noughtihood, nought the less, noughting, noughts and crosses, eatnought, sleepnought, shitnought and 56 more...
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dickinsonian
psalteries, enamoring, estates, whim, calyx, hoisted, nought, pentateuchal, retina, obviated, revelation, stalactite and 193 more...
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vmarinelli's Words
canard, gumption, inexorable, insouciance, inviolable, mordant, euphonious, sawbuck, carpe diem, pay dirt, adipocere, profligate and 496 more...
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TheLastGoodNameLeft
The Last Good Words Left
ephemera, gammon, errata, ellipses, octopi, heteronormative, polyp, intersectionality, theses, california, halfback, fullback and 555 more...
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List
Witty, Murmur, Schism, Smolder, ingle nook, revenant, sea-gate, swell, knot, gunwale, oarlock, poppet and 65 more...
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as in tl and the rx
conjure, draught, propaganda, inchigeela, oed' und leer, da..., nought, sonics, phonics, pontoons, powers, manifestation, digger and 5 more...
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Feb 12, 2008