Synonyms for nil
nɪlnil

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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, naught, aught, cipher, nix, zippo, zero point, nobody, secret code, slide fastener, nonentity, vigor, zip fastener, cryptograph, cypher, zilch, nothing, nada, null

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1. List of paraphrases for "nil":

   zero, none, null, nile, niie, nothingness, void, lame, non-existent, 0, invalid, nul, nothing, scratch, n.a.

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1. List of known nicknames for "Nil":

   Nil Hartman

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How to use nil in a sentence?

1. Bernie Sanders ':

   First of all, its likelihood of getting through Congress is nil. Second of all, I think it would be very divisive, the real issue is when we look at the poverty rate among the African-American community, when we look at the high unemployment rate within the African-American community, we have a lot of work to do.

2. Airservices Australia:

   Air Traffic Control in Sydney are now processing arrivals. Aircraft are landing albeit a slower rate. Nil departures at this time.

3. Chris Murphy:

   I think Democrats have coalesced around the idea that if you're going to spend time debating the issue of college athletics, you shouldn't be limited to talking only about endorsement rights, my sense is that if the NCAA wants Congress to solve this issue of NIL, they're going to have to come to the table on a lot of other things as well.

4. Terence:

   Homo sum humani nil a me alienum puto.(I am a man I hold that nothing human is alien to me.)

5. Brandon Brown:

   At this time the odds of getting Ebola in the U.S. are close to nil,( but) what the survey shows us is that the understanding of Ebola and how its transmitted is REALLY low, we have to expect that one day there will be another epidemic that has the capacity to enter our borders, and if we don’t know how it is transmitted, we ca n’t protect ourselves properly.