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Meaning of 'naught'
Meaning of 'naught' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Naught 
[ a.]
- Of no value or account; worthless; bad; useless. [ a.]- Hence, vile; base; naughty.
2. Naught [ adv.]
- Nothing. [ adv.]- The arithmetical character 0; a cipher. See Cipher.
- In no degree; not at all.
Meaning of 'naught' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. naught [ n]
[ n]Meaning (1):
- complete failure
- complete failure
Example in sentence:
- all my efforts led to naught
Meaning (2):
- a quantity of no importance
- a quantity of no importance
Example in sentence:
- I didn't hear zilch about it;
- it looked like nothing I had ever seen before;
- it was all for naught;
- reduced to nil all the work we had done;
- we racked up a pathetic goose egg
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