nix
Noun
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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 purposesubtypes:
- 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
Verb
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Command against (synset 200797525)
"I forbid you to call me late at night"; "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store"; "Dad nixed our plans"subtypes:
- ban - prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure
- bar, debar, exclude - prevent from entering; keep out
- enjoin - issue an injunction
- criminalise, criminalize, illegalise, illegalize, outlaw - declare illegal; outlaw
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