naught : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: naught	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for naught
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
naught 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" Synonym(s): nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo complete failure; "all my efforts led to naught"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. [bd]Ye have set at naught all my counsel.[b8] --Prov. i. 25.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Naught \Naught\, adv. In no degree; not at all. --Chaucer. To wealth or sovereign power he naught applied. --Fairfax.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.