'Nothing' definitions:
Definition of 'nothing'
(from WordNet)
adverb
In no respect; to no degree; "he looks nothing like his father"
noun
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]
Definition of 'Nothing'
From: GCIDE
- Nothing \Noth"ing\, n. [From no, a. + thing.]
- 1. Not anything; no thing (in the widest sense of the word thing); -- opposed to anything and something. [1913 Webster]
- Yet had his aspect nothing of severe. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Nonexistence; nonentity; absence of being; nihility; nothingness. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A thing of no account, value, or note; something irrelevant and impertinent; something of comparative unimportance; utter insignificance; a trifle. [1913 Webster]
- Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought. --Is. xli. 24. [1913 Webster]
- 'T is nothing, says the fool; but, says the friend, This nothing, sir, will bring you to your end. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Arith.) A cipher; naught. [1913 Webster]
- Nothing but, only; no more than. --Chaucer.
- To make nothing of. (a) To make no difficulty of; to consider as trifling or important. "We are industrious to preserve our bodies from slavery, but we make nothing of suffering our souls to be slaves to our lusts." --Ray. (b) Not to understand; as, I could make nothing of what he said. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Nothing'
From: GCIDE
- Nothing \Noth"ing\, adv. In no degree; not at all; in no wise. [1913 Webster]
- Adam, with such counsel nothing swayed. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- The influence of reason in producing our passions is nothing near so extensive as is commonly believed. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- Nothing off (Naut.), an order to the steersman to keep the vessel close to the wind. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'nothing'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a little thing,
- a nobody,
- a nothing,
- aught,
- bagatelle,
- blank,
- cipher,
- clean slate,
- common man,
- dud,
- dummy,
- empty space,
- figurehead,
- good-for-nothing,
- goose egg,
- hardly anything,
- hollow man,
- inanity,
- inessential,
- insignificancy,
- jackstraw,
- lay figure,
- lightweight,
- little fellow,
- little guy,
- man of straw,
- marginal matter,
- matter of indifference,
- mediocrity,
- mere nothing,
- minor matter,
- nada,
- naught,
- nebbish,
- nichts,
- nihil,
- nihility,
- nil,
- nix,
- no great matter,
- no such thing,
- no-account,
- no-good,
- nobody,
- nobody one knows,
- nonentity,
- nothing at all,
- nothing in particular,
- nothing on earth,
- nothing to signify,
- nothing whatever,
- nothingness,
- nought,
- nullity,
- obscurity,
- ought,
- paltry affair,
- peanuts,
- peu de chose,
- pip-squeak,
- punk,
- puppet,
- pushover,
- rien du tout,
- runt,
- scarcely anything,
- scrub,
- shrimp,
- small fry,
- small potato,
- small potatoes,
- squirt,
- squit,
- tabula rasa,
- technicality,
- thing of naught,
- trifle,
- unworthy,
- vacuum,
- valueless,
- void,
- whiffet,
- whippersnapper,
- wind,
- zero,
- zilch
Words containing 'Nothing'
- Nothing but,
- Nothing off,
- do nothing,
- for nothing,
- nothings,
- out of nothing,
- Good for nothing,
- Neck or nothing,
- To dance on nothing,
- To go for nothing,
- To make nothing of,
- all-or-nothing,
- come to nothing,
- do-nothing,
- know nothing,
- make nothing of,
- mere nothing,
- nothing of the kind,
- nothing special,
- sweet nothings,
- think nothing of,
- Know-nothing,
- good-for-nothing,
- much ado about nothing,
- know-nothing party