Synonyms for naught
nɔtnaught

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 3 votes

1. naught

   Synonyms:
   nothing

   Antonyms:
   aught, anything, everything

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.4 / 5 votes

1. nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zipponoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   postal code, nought, zipper, zero, vigour, zip, energy, goose egg, postcode, aught, cipher, nix, zippo, nil, zero point, nobody, secret code, slide fastener, nonentity, vigor, zip fastener, cryptograph, cypher, zilch, nothing, nada, null

2. naughtnoun

   complete failure

   "all my efforts led to naught"

   Synonyms:
   null, cypher, cipher, zero, zilch, nada, aught, nil, nix, nothing, zip, zippo, goose egg

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Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. naughtnoun

   Synonyms:
   nothing, nought

2. naughtadjective

   Synonyms:
   worthless, bad, of no value

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1. Lori Lightfoot:

   If people don't feel safe, literally nothing else matters. We've made tremendous progress, our economy is opening up, we did a vaccine distribution and other Covid related mitigations, all of that is for naught if people can't walk down the street.

2. Madame Swetchine:

   In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.

3. Rob Murphy:

   All you have to do to get rid of an epidemic is to have The R-naught factor be less than one. As soon as it's less than one -- each person gives it to less than one other person -- it dies off, the problem with The R-naught factor is, it's very nice to describe the average. However, in medicine, as in many things, if you find an average person let me know ; I want to go meet them.

4. William Shakespeare:

   Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

5. Emma Goldman:

   Crime is naught but misdirected energy.