naught
naught · naughts
нікчема, недоріка, нікчемник
ничтожество
Null, Nullpunkt, Nullstelle
NothingnessNothingness.
UK/nɔːt/US/nɒt/
» It was naught but a ruse.
Это было не что иное, как уловка.
Це було нічим іншим як підступом.
Meaning
1 senses(archaic, countable, uncountable)Nothingness.
Nichts
ничто́ništó
More definitions
- complete failure
- a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential
Examples
23 sentencesIt was naught but a ruse.
Це було нічим іншим як підступом.
ruЭто было не что иное, как уловка.
The deed is everything, the glory naught.
deDie Tat ist alles, nichts der Ruhm.
It is naught but an old folk-tale.
deDas ist nur eine alte Volkssage.
Why did we do it if it was all for naught?
The shape of an egg is like the shape of a naught (0).
Translations
4 languagesРусский
By meaning 1
nothingness:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
nothingness:
Origin
From the Middle English naught, nought, naht, nawiht, from Old English nawiht. Cognate witFrom the Middle English naught, nought, naht, nawiht, from Old English nawiht. Cognate with West Frisian neat (“nothing, naught”). Doublet of nought. Equivalent to ne + aught.
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Forms
plural: naughtsSynonyms
13 synonymsWord family
1 related wordsDerivednaughtyB2
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable