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naught |
4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Naught \Naught\, n. [OE. naught, nought, naht, nawiht AS n?wiht, n?uht, n?ht; ne not + ? ever + 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Naught \Naught\, adv In no degree; not at all --Chaucer. To wealth or sovereign power he naught applied. --Fairfax. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Naught \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: naught n 1: 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: {nothing}, {nil}, {nix}, {nada}, {aught}, {cipher}, {cypher}, {goose egg}, {zero}, {zilch}, {zip}] 2: complete failure; "all my efforts led to naught"
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