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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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