Meaning & use
zilch
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Nothing at all; zero.
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After hours of searching, we found zilch.
He knows zilch about car repair.
A note on using this word
An informal, playful word mainly used in speech; it emphasizes a complete absence of something more forcefully than plain 'nothing.'
Words with a similar meaning
nothingnil
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Words with an opposite meaning
everything
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