| 1. | no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing. |
| 2. | no part, share, or trace (usually fol. by of): The house showed nothing of its former magnificence. |
| 3. | something that is nonexistent. |
| 4. | nonexistence; nothingness: The sound faded to nothing. |
| 5. | something or someone of no importance or significance: Money is nothing when you're without health. |
| 6. | a trivial action, matter, circumstance, thing, or remark: to exchange a few nothings when being introduced. |
| 7. | a person of little or no importance; a nobody. |
| 8. | something that is without quantity or magnitude. |
| 9. | a cipher or naught: Nothing from nine leaves nine. |
| 10. | (used in conventional responses to expressions of thanks): Think nothing of it. It's nothing. Nothing to it. |
| 11. | in no respect or degree; not at all: It was nothing like that. Nothing dismayed, he repeated his question. |
| 12. | amounting to nothing, as in offering no prospects for satisfaction, advancement, or the like: She was stuck in a nothing job. |
| 13. | for nothing,
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| 14. | in nothing flat, in very little time: Dinner was finished in nothing flat. |
| 15. | make nothing of,
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| 16. | nothing but, nothing other than; only: We could see nothing but fog. |
| 17. | nothing doing,
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| 18. | nothing less than or short of, absolutely; completely: She was used to nothing less than the best. |
| 19. | think nothing of,
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nothing but
Only, as in She thinks of nothing but money. This term was first recorded about 1380.