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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

... planned a little vacation for ourselves, but the planning came to naught. The next night we spent on a sleeper. That in itself is ...

— The War Terror • Arthur B. Reeve

... life. They came to the site where the Indian village had formerly stood in its picturesque beauty, with six or eight thousand inhabitants swarming around, in the various costumes, and engaged in the diversified employments of savage life. Naught remained but smouldering ruins and trampled harvests. Man bitterest foe, his brother man, had been there, and had left behind but the traces of desolation, blood and woe. Neither wolf nor bear could have been more merciless, or could have left ...

— The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hu • John S. C. Abbott

... the edge off the keenest appetite ever born of the breath of the sea. Truly Naples affords but sorry entertainment to a stranger; is there naught to hear but stories of the dying ...

— Vendetta - A Story of One Forgotten • Marie Corelli

... keenly when they find it on foreign shores. But no peace or security is possible with the attempt to subvert all human society by wild and impracticable theories, in which human and divine laws are alike set at naught. Further words are unnecessary on this subject, as the simple good sense and deep religious feeling of the Irish will easily preserve them from ...

— Irish Race in the Past and the Present • Aug. J. Thebaud

... can you find, sir, in fighting with these drunken robbers? Is it the business of a 'boyar?' The stars are not always propitious, and you will only get killed for naught. Now if you were making war with Turks or Swedes! But I'm ashamed even to talk of these fellows with whom you ...

— The Daughter of the Commandant • Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

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