nothing

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
13
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈnʌθɪŋ/
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/ˈnʌθɪŋ/ · /ˈnʌtɪŋ/ · /ˈnʌʔn̩/ · /ˈnʌfɪŋ/ · /ˈnʊθɪŋ/ · /ˈnʊθɪŋɡ/ · /ˈnʊfɪŋ/ · /ˈnʊfɪŋɡ/ · /ˈnɐ̞θɪ̝ŋ/ · /ˈnɐ̞θəŋ/

Definition of nothing

9 senses · 5 parts of speech · etymology included

pron

  1. (indefinite, pronoun)Not any thing; no thing.
    “Don't just say nothing. Tell me what's going on.”
    “Nothing bad will happen, will it?”
    “There remains nothing more to be done.”
    “See? there’s nothing!”
    “Feels like I'm wearing nothing at all! Nothing at all! Nothing at all!”
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pron

  1. (indefinite, pronoun)Not any thing; no thing.
    “Don't just say nothing. Tell me what's going on.”
    “Nothing bad will happen, will it?”
    “There remains nothing more to be done.”
    “See? there’s nothing!”
    “Feels like I'm wearing nothing at all! Nothing at all! Nothing at all!”
  2. (indefinite, pronoun)An absence of anything, including empty space, brightness, darkness, matter, or a vacuum.

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)Something trifling, or of no consequence or importance.
    “- What happened to your face? - It's nothing.”
    “Sermons are not like curious inquiries after new nothings, but pursuances of old truths.”
    “Knuckles: The Egg Carrier is nothing compared to this!”
  2. (countable, uncountable)A trivial remark especially in the term sweet nothings.
  3. (countable, uncountable)A nobody (insignificant person).

adv

  1. (archaic, not-comparable)Not at all; in no way.
    “Nothing too much out of the ordinary.”
    “Nothing dismayed, I repeated my query.”
    “The answer was an impatient one—but, nothing daunted, he continued.”
    “The Motion from London to Syria is as much as nothing; and nothing altereth the relation which is between them.”

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Completely unimportant.
    “Dallas scored on what had seemed until then like a nothing play.”
  2. (not-comparable)Lacking effort or commitment.
    “The cricketer played a nothing shot.”

intj

  1. Never mind; it's not important; forget what I said.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English nothyng, noon thing, non thing, na þing, nan thing, nan þing, from Old English nāþing, nān þing (“nothing”, literally “not any thing”), equivalent to no + thing. Compare Old English nāwiht (“nothing”, literally “no thing”), Swedish ingenting (“nothing”, literally “not any thing, no thing”).

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