zilch
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8.5
- noun
- /zɪltʃ/
- Informal
- These people think they're lucky to get hired as adjunct faculty at minimum pay with zilch benefits.
- zilch and nada
- zilch and zero
- zilch and zip
Examples
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When you get to the fifth year, the chance of recurrence is basically zilch!
Blog text (21) -
He's gone from being obsessed to absolutely zilch, and I can't put my finger on it.
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It's yours for asking, and it will cost you zilch except your email address.
Blog text (17) -
Now he has zilch, plus a truck.
Fiction book (1999) -
Five new establishments have been purchased, so you can say the impact of the Free Trade Agreement on our business has been zilch.
Academic text (1991) -
Our Prime Minister has done absolutely zilch about this issue.
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It's yours for asking, and it will cost you zilch except your email address.
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If I die, the money goes to a charitable trust and he gets zilch.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Not anything of interest or value
∞
1.0
Not any of a group of people or things
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8.1
An amount that is nothing
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8.1
Nothing at all often used informally to mean zero
30
8.3
The state of having no value, result, or importance
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5.1
No amount or value, meaning nothing at all
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9.9
Not anything or zero
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9.9
Nothing of value or importance
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9.9
A very small amount, almost nothing
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9.4
Nothing at all
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4.9
There is not even a tiny bit of something
3
8.1
A score or total of zero
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9.9
Not anything at all
Having no amount or value
Antonyms
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Etymology
Zilch is American slang that means 'nothing' or 'zero'. A helpful way to remember it is to feel the short, sharp sound of the word, like a quick 'zip' that leaves you with nothing, so zilch means 'nothing at all'.