Nothing

Word NOTHING
Character 7
Hyphenation noth ing
Pronunciations /ˈnʌθɪŋ/

Definitions and meanings of "Nothing"

What do we mean by nothing?

No thing; not anything. pronoun

No part; no portion. pronoun

One of no consequence, significance, or interest. pronoun

Something that has no existence. noun

Something that has no quantitative value; zero. noun

One that has no substance or importance; a nonentity. noun

Insignificant or worthless. adjective

In no way or degree; not at all. adverb

(for nothing) Free of charge. idiom

(for nothing) To no avail. idiom

(for nothing) For no reason. idiom

(in nothing flat) In very little time; very quickly. idiom

(nothing doing) Certainly not. idiom

(nothing for it) Nothing else to be done; no alternative. idiom

In no degree; not at all; in no way; not.

No thing; not anything; not something; something that is not anything. noun

A non-existent something, spoken of positively, so that the literal meaning is absurd. noun

Not something. In this sense the word is more distinctly no thing; and the sentence containing nothing merely contradicts a corresponding sentence containing something in place of nothing. noun

A cipher; naught. noun

A thing of no consequence, consideration, or importance; a trifle. noun

Something trifling, or of no consequence or importance.

A trivial remark (especially in the term sweet nothings).

A nobody (insignificant person).

Synonyms and Antonyms for Nothing

The word "nothing" in example sentences

But nothing, absolutely *nothing* about Crowe's character throughout the movie convinced me that he was the person who would, at the very last minute, turn on a dime, shoot down his own gang and then throw himself in jail out of some weird sense of nobility. ❋ Rogers (2008)

However, upon reading further I discovered Joe ¨don´t know nothing about nothing¨ Lelyveld will return. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Their music makes me feel so good that I did exercise to it, and nothing, *nothing* makes me want to do exercise. ❋ Unknown (2003)

He had a job to do and nothing, _nothing, would keep him from doing it to the best of his ability. ❋ Brown, Sandra, 1948- (1985)

"Cuthbert is nothing to me -- _nothing_ -- compared with you, Wyvis." ❋ Adeline Sergeant (N/A)

Mr. Ruskin bade men "go to Nature in all singleness of heart, and walk with her laboriously and trustingly, having no other thought but how best to penetrate her meaning, _rejecting nothing, selecting nothing and scorning nothing_;" and Mr. Hamerton was literally obeying him when he exiled himself for five years in a hut on an island in a bleak Scotch lake to learn faithfully to portray the shores of that single lake. ❋ Various (N/A)

In fine, The Gentry are very Rich, live of all Men the most careless and contented Lives, keeping the Poor as Drudges and Slaves for them; and as it is said of the Tyrant _Polycrates_, _Have nothing to trouble them, but that they are troubled with nothing_. ❋ Robert Howlett (N/A)

That is the sting of it, that in the vast drifting of the cosmic weather, though many a jewelled shore appears, and many an enchanted cloud-bank floats away, long lingering ere it be dissolved -- even as our world now lingers for our joy -- yet when these transient products are gone, nothing, absolutely _nothing_ remains. ❋ Irwin Edman (N/A)

As things were, there was nothing else to be done, _nothing_. ❋ Kathlyn Rhodes (N/A)

But until that day I will have nothing to do with you, _nothing_. ❋ Joan Conquest (N/A)

It informs us in all the duties of life, piety to our parents, faith to our friends, charity to the miserable, judgment in counsel; it gives us _peace_, by _fearing_ nothing, and _riches_, by _coveting nothing_. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

She tried to think of all the things that were still hers, the garden, the watch-bracelet, the leisure, the pretty gowns -- but nothing, _nothing_ seemed of any consequence beside the fact that -- she had not kissed Allan good-night! ❋ Margaret Widdemer (1931)

You are a clever man, but you know nothing of a woman's heart -- nothing -- _nothing_ -- if seeing me, hearing me, knowing, as you do know, what I risk, you can doubt that I speak the truth. ❋ Sax Rohmer (1921)

The quality of genius was an education almost ultimate, for one touched there the limits of the human mind on that side; but one could only receive; one had nothing to give, —nothing even to offer. ❋ Unknown (1918)

But, you see, the best hand in the world’ll not get you a better place than a copying-clerk’s, if you know nothing of book-keeping, —nothing of accounts. ❋ Unknown (1917)

It was now that Minister Malden cried from the doorway: "That is nothing, Yen Sin -- _nothing_ -- when you think of _me_!" ❋ Various (1915)

He had told Tom that if he only once found a trail, nothing would stop him -- _nothing_. ❋ Percy Keese Fitzhugh (1913)

There's nothing better than to finish what you begin -- _nothing_. ❋ Percy Keese Fitzhugh (1913)

What madness to realize that an animal is hiding under that pin-cushion and laughing at me, and that I can do nothing, _nothing_! ❋ 1873-1954 Colette (1913)

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