naught
Use Naught in a sentence
adjective
3.
lost; ruined.
4.
Archaic. worthless; useless.
5.
Obsolete. morally bad; wicked.
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Naught
is always a great word to know.
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| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
adverb
Idioms 6.
Obsolete, not.
7.
come to naught, to come to nothing; be without result or fruition; fail.
8.
set at naught, to regard or treat as of no importance; disdain: He entered a milieu that set his ideals at naught.
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naught (nɔːt) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | archaic, literary or nothing or nothingness; ruin or failure |
| 2. | a variant spelling (esp US) of nought |
| 3. | set at naught to have disregard or scorn for; disdain |
| —adv | |
| 4. | archaic, literary or not at all: it matters naught |
| —adj | |
| 5. | obsolete worthless, ruined, or wicked |
| [Old English nāwiht, from nā | |
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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Example sentences
And yet decades of search came to naught-until recently.
These set off a storm in the academic community, and they come to naught.
Tie your string well, or ill, and its length counts for naught.
It seems that all the efforts of those so-called peace makers will have been for naught.
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