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noun

Naught n.

Nothing. (Written also nought) "Doth Job fear God for naught?"

The arithmetical character 0; a cipher. See Cipher.

To set at naught, to treat as of no account; to disregard; to despise; to defy; to treat with ignominy. "Ye have set at naught all my counsel."

adjective

Naught adj.

Of no value or account; worthless; bad; useless. "It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer." "Go, get you to your house; begone, away! All will be naught else." "Things naught and things indifferent."

Hence, vile; base; naughty. (Obs.) "No man can be stark naught at once."

adverb

Naught adv. In no degree; not at all. "To wealth or sovereign power he naught applied."

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Etymology of 'Naught'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Naught" Quotes from Famous Books

... felt rather than made obvious—it was not barbarism, but decadence. And I realized then how close are the two extremes. A reversion to type, merely. And I knew, then, that from the pinnacle of civilization which we of Earth had reached, naught lay ...

— Tarrano the Conqueror • Raymond King Cummings

... forty yard line and Mack Carver's brilliant runback of the initial kick-off reduced to naught! ...

— Interference and Other Football Stories • Harold M. Sherman

... blood ran cold, then burn'd like fire; Venus I felt in all my fever'd frame, Whose fury had so many of my race Pursued. With fervent vows I sought to shun Her torments, built and deck'd for her a shrine, And there, 'mid countless victims did I seek The reason I had lost; but all for naught, No remedy could cure the wounds of love! In vain I offer'd incense on her altars; When I invoked her name my heart adored Hippolytus, before me constantly; And when I made her altars smoke with victims, 'Twas for a god whose name I dared not utter. I ...

— Phaedra • Jean Baptiste Racine

... lined; her eyes were gray, Mirrors of her heart's continuous play; Her head, crowned with a wintry sheet, Had learned naught of this world's deceit. She oft forgot her own in others' trials, And met the day's rebuffs with ...

— Nancy McVeigh of the Monk Road • R. Henry Mainer

... croaker, Zachariah. You see naught but the buzzards, when all about you are the newly come birds of spring, the bluebird, the robin, and the thrush. Soon the meadow lark will be in the fields, and the young ...

— Viola Gwyn • George Barr McCutcheon

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