Meaning & use

naught

noun·Advanced

Nothing at all; zero, especially in older or literary English.

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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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