3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Nothing \Noth"ing\, adv
In no degree; not at all in no wise.
Adam, with such counsel nothing swayed. --Milton.
The influence of reason in producing our passions is
nothing near so extensive as is commonly believed.
--Burke.
{Nothing off} (Naut.), an order to the steersman to keep the
vessel close to the wind.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Nothing \Noth"ing\, n. [From no a. + thing.]
1. Not anything no thing (in the widest sense of the word
thing); -- opposed to {anything} and {something}.
Yet had his aspect nothing of severe. --Dryden.
2. Nonexistence; nonentity; absence of being nihility;
nothingness. --Shak.
3. A thing of no account, value, or note; something
irrelevant and impertinent; something of comparative
unimportance; utter insignificance; a trifle.
Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought.
--Is. xli. 24.
'T is nothing, says the fool; but says the friend,
This nothing, sir, will bring you to your end
--Dryden.
4. (Arith.) A cipher; naught.
{Nothing but}, only; no more than --Chaucer.
{To make nothing of}.
a To make no difficulty of to consider as trifling or
important. ``We are industrious to preserve our bodies
from slavery, but we make nothing of suffering our
souls to be slaves to our lusts.'' --Ray.
b Not to understand; as I could make nothing of what he
said
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
nothing
n : 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" [syn: {nil},
{nix}, {nada}, {aught}, {cipher}, {cypher}, {goose egg},
{naught}, {zero}, {zilch}, {zip}]
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