"naught" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

A quantity of no importance (synset 113762308)
"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"

is a type of: relative quantity - a quantity relative to some purpose
subtypes:
- nihil - (Latin) nil; nothing (as used by a sheriff after an unsuccessful effort to serve a writ)
- bugger all, fanny adams, fuck all, sweet fanny adams - little or nothing at all
same as: aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo
Complete failure (synset 100067973)
"all my efforts led to naught"

is a type of: failure - an act that fails