nought

noun

1. Nothing; something which does not exist.

   “"It is the truth; naught have I hidden from thee, Kallikrates."”

2. A thing or person of no worth or value; nil.
3. Not any quantity of number; zero; the score of no points in a game.

   “0.335 cm is nought/zero point three three five of a centimeter.”

4. The figure or character representing, or having the shape of, zero.

adj

1. (obsolete)Good for nothing; worthless.

   “It is nought, it is nought (saith the buyer:) but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.”

2. Wicked, immoral.

verb

1. To abase, to set at nought.

   “In this naked word sin, our Lord brought to my mind, generally, all that is not good, and the shameful despite and the utter noughting that He bare for us in this life, and His dying; and all the pains and passions of all His creatures, ghostly and bodily; (for we be all partly noughted, and we shall be noughted following our Master, Jesus, till we be full purged, that is to say, till we be fully noughted of our deadly flesh and of all our inward affections which are not very good;)”

   “The nought which is you has devoured the style and been sustained for a while as a non-you until the style is emptied out by the noughting self.”

   “Your usefulness is zero, your worth zero, and as zero you deserve to be treated as nothing, and in the extreme, noughted.”

   “What is the use of noughting yourself? Who is noughting who? What is the use of searching for yourself? Who is searching for who? There are not two of you ! You cannot find yourself, or the absence of yourself.”

adv

1. To no extent; in no way; not at all.
2. Not.

pron

1. Nothing; zero.