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Nothing

nothing

n/
pronoun
pronoun: nothing; plural noun: nothings

1. 1.

not anything; no single thing.

"I said nothing"

not a thing, not a single thing, not anything, nothing at all, nil, zero; More
nowt;
informalzilch, sweet Fanny Adams, sweet FA, nix, not a dicky bird;
informaldamn all, not a sausage;
synonyms:
informalzip, nada, a goose egg, bupkis;
vulgar slangbugger all, sod all, fuck all;
archaicnought, naught
"there's nothing I can do about it"
antonyms: something

o something of no importance or concern.

"What are you laughing at? Oh, nothing, sir"

a matter of no importance/consequence, a trifling matter, a trifle, a


piece of trivia, a (mere) bagatelle; More
neither here nor there;
informalno big deal
"please forget it, it's nothing"
synonyms:
a person of no importance, an unimportant person, a person of no
account, a nobody, a nonentity, a cipher, a non-person;
a lightweight;
small beer
"he seemed to treat her as nothing"
antonyms: celebrity

o (in calculations) no amount; nought.


zero, nought, 0; More
love;
synonyms:
a duck
"the value of the shares is unlikely to fall to nothing"
adjective
informal
adjective: nothing

1. 1.

having no prospect of progress; of no value.

"he had a series of nothing jobs"

adverb
adverb: nothing

1. 1.

not at all.

"a man who cared nothing for her"

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