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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

NAUGHT, n. Nothing.
Doth Job serve God for naught? Job 1.
Thou sellest thy people for naught. Psalms 44.
To set at naught, to slight, to disregard or despise.
Ye have set at naught all my counsel. Proverbs 1.
NAUGHT, adv. In no degree
To wealth or sovereign power he naught applied.
NAUGHT, a. Bad; worthless; of no value or account.
Things naught and things indifferent.
It is naught, it is naught, says the buyer. Proverbs 20.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo]
2: complete failure; "all my efforts led to naught"

Merriam Webster's

I. pronoun also nought Etymology: Middle English nought, from Old English n?wiht, from n? no + wiht creature, thing — more at no, wight Date: before 12th century nothing <efforts came to naught> II. noun also nought Date: before 12th century 1. nothingness, nonexistence 2. the arithmetical symbol 0 ; zero, cipher

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & adj. --n. 1 archaic or literary nothing, nought. 2 US = NOUGHT. --adj. (usu. predic.) archaic or literary worthless; useless. Phrases and idioms: bring to naught ruin; baffle. come to naught be ruined or baffled. set at naught disregard; despise. Etymology: OE nawiht, -wuht f. na (see NO(2)) + wiht WIGHT

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Naught Naught, adv. In no degree; not at all. --Chaucer. To wealth or sovereign power he naught applied. --Fairfax.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see nought

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. Nothing, nought. II. a. 1. Worthless, bad, of no value. 2. Naughty, vile, base.

Moby Thesaurus

a little thing, aught, cipher, collapse, destruction, disaster, failure, goose egg, hardly anything, inessential, insignificancy, marginal matter, matter of indifference, mere nothing, minor matter, nada, nichts, nihil, nihility, nil, nix, no great matter, no such thing, nothing, nothing at all, nothing in particular, nothing on earth, nothing to signify, nothing whatever, nought, nullity, ought, paltry affair, peu de chose, rien du tout, ruin, scarcely anything, technicality, thing of naught, wind, zero, zilch