Thesaurus: naught

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1. adv. Nothing.
2. adv. The arithmetical character 0; a cipher. See Cipher.
3. adv. In no degree; not at all.
4. a. Of no value or account; worthless; bad; useless.
5. a. Hence, vile; base; naughty.
6. n. a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential
7. n. complete failure
8. 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. In no degree; not at all. Chaucer. To wealth or sovereign power he naught applied. Fairfax. 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.
9. In no degree; not at all. Chaucer.To wealth or sovereign power he naught applied. Fairfax.