nought

noughtnoun/nɔːt/

• 1

  A thing or person of no worth or value; nil.

• 2

  Not any quantity of number; zero; the score of no points in a game.

  • 0.335 cm is nought/zero point three three five of a centimeter.
• 3

  The figure or character representing, or having the shape of, zero.

noughtadj/nɔːt/

• 1

  obsoleteGood for nothing; worthless.

  • It is nought, it is nought (saith the buyer:) but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
• 2

  Wicked, immoral.

noughtverb/nɔːt/

• 1

  To abase, to set at nought.

  • In this naked word sin, our Lord brought to my mind, generally, all that is not good, and the shameful despite and the utter noughting that He bare for us in this life, and His dying; and all the pains and passions of all His creatures, ghostly and bodily; (for we be all partly noughted, and we shall be noughted following our Master, Jesus, till we be full purged, that is to say, till we be fully noughted of our deadly flesh and of all our inward affections which are not very good;)
  • The nought which is you has devoured the style and been sustained for a while as a non-you until the style is emptied out by the noughting self.

noughtadv/nɔːt/

• 1

  To no extent; in no way; not at all.

• 2

  Not.

noughtpron/nɔːt/

• 1

  Nothing; zero.