aught

Examples

• All

• But the king was asking after my family, and questioning me about my voyage, and querying if there were aught I might need.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Away, away from the smoldering city, with aught but a bundle of nothing knotted to your shouldered staff.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Do not trust one with your life, your goods, your honor, or aught else you may hold dear.

  Fiction book (1991)

• I am not guilty of lysander's blood; nor is he dead, for aught that I can tell.

  Return with Honor (1999)

• What argument can we have of their salvation, who both lived and died for aught we know, in such gross idolatry?

  Academic text (2018)

• Do not exceed the limits of your religion, nor say of Allah aught but the truth.

  Blog text (23)

• Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice.

  Orlando (1992)

• Iago is finally made to answer and states, "My lord, for aught I know" (3.3.103).

  Academic text (2005)

• Don't say aught.

  Gone to Earth (1950)

• I haven't seen aught of my lost keys since yesterday.

Synonyms

Z

zip

vsaught

• Slang

43 8.1

Nothing at all often used informally to mean zero

is the neutral general term without informal regional marking

N

naught

vsaught

• Archaic

30 8.3

The state of having no value, result, or importance

is the same notion expressed using a different conventional word

N

nil

vsaught

• UK

20 5.1

No amount or value, meaning nothing at all

is the general term for lack without technical or sporting focus

N

nothing

vsaught

17 1.0

No thing present in a place or situation

is the same idea but presented in an alternate traditional form

Z

zippo

vsaught

• Archaic

8 9.9

Nothing at all

is the neutral general word rather than slangy informal speech

Z

zilch

vsaught

• Informal

7 8.5

Nothing at all

is the neutral general term used without informal emphasis

N

nada

vsaught

• Informal

6 9.4

Nothing at all

is the same idea but named by a different single word

G

goose egg

vsaught

• Informal

3 8.1

A score or total of zero

is the general word for lack of quantity in any context

N

nowt

vsaught

• UK

1 9.9

Not anything at all

is the same absence idea but without regional or dialect marking

Antonyms

S

something

∞ 1.0

An unknown object or idea that is not named

Surface Forms

Etymology