Meaning & use
naught
Nothing at all; zero, especially in older or literary English.
See it in a sentence
All his careful planning came to naught when the flight was cancelled.
The count begins at naught and rises by one each round.
A note on using this word
Naught survives mainly in the fixed phrase "come to naught" (fail completely) and in British usage as an old word for the digit zero.
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Words with an opposite meaning
everything
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