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naught 音标拼音: [n'ɔt] n. 无,零
a. 无价值的,无用的 无,零无价值的,无用的 naught n 1: a quantity of no importance; " it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; " reduced to nil all the work we had done"; " we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; " it was all for naught"; " I didn' t hear zilch about it" [ synonym: { nothing}, { nil}, { nix}, { nada}, { null}, { aught}, { cipher}, { cypher}, { goose egg}, { naught}, { zero}, { zilch}, { zip}, { zippo}] 2: complete failure; " all my efforts led to naught" Naught \ Naught\ ( n[ add] t), n. [ OE. naught, nought, naht, nawiht, AS. n[= a] wiht, n[= a] uht, n[= a] ht; ne not [= a] ever wiht thing, whit; hence, not ever a whit. See { No}, adv. { Whit}, and cf. { Aught}, { Not}.] 1. Nothing. [ Written also { nought}.] [ 1913 Webster] Doth Job fear God for naught? -- Job i. 9. [ 1913 Webster] 2. The arithmetical character 0; a cipher. See { Cipher}. [ 1913 Webster] { To set at naught}, to treat as of no account; to disregard; to despise; to defy; to treat with ignominy. " Ye have set at naught all my counsel." -- Prov. i. 25. [ 1913 Webster]
Naught \ Naught\, adv. In no degree; not at all. -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] To wealth or sovereign power he naught applied. -- Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster]
Naught \ Naught\, a. 1. Of no value or account; worthless; bad; useless. [ 1913 Webster] It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer. -- Prov. xx. 14. [ 1913 Webster] Go, get you to your house; begone, away! All will be naught else. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Things naught and things indifferent. -- Hooker. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Hence, vile; base; naughty. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] No man can be stark naught at once. -- Fuller. [ 1913 Webster] 42 Moby Thesaurus words for " naught": a little thing, aught, cipher, collapse, destruction, disaster, failure, goose egg, hardly anything, inessential, insignificancy, marginal matter, matter of indifference, mere nothing, minor matter, nada, nichts, nihil, nihility, nil, nix, no great matter, no such thing, nothing, nothing at all, nothing in particular, nothing on earth, nothing to signify, nothing whatever, nought, nullity, ought, paltry affair, peu de chose, rien du tout, ruin, scarcely anything, technicality, thing of naught, wind, zero, zilch |
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