Definition for: nothing

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English

Pronunciation

• AHD: nŭth'ĭng
• IPA: /ˈnʌθɪŋ/
• SAMPA: /"nVTIN/

Rhymes: -ʌθɪŋ

• Hyphenation: noth·ing

Pronoun

nothing

1. Not any thing; no thing.
2. an absence of anything, including empty space, brightness, darkness, matter, or a vaccum.
3. ( non-standard ) Anything (in double negatives such as I didn't see nothing [= I didn't see anything]).
4. Something trifling, something of no consequence.

   What happened to your face? — It's nothing.

Quotations

• 1839 : the players see little or nothing of their cards at first starting - Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby .

Synonyms

• ( not any thing):
  • ( standard ): not a thing
  • ( slang ): jack, nada, zip
  • ( vulgar slang ): bugger all, jack shit, sod all ( British )
  • ( Northern English dialect ): nowt

• ( something trifling ): nothing of any consequence, nothing consequential, nothing important, nothing significant, something inconsequential, something insignificant, something of no consequence, something trifling, something unimportant

Antonyms

• anything
• everything
• something

Translations

not any thing

something trifling

Related terms

• thing
• anything
• something
• everything
• nothingness

See also

• nobody, no one
• nowhere

Other Translations for "nothing"

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Sign Language Spelling
Morse Code		-. --- - .... .. -. --.
Binary		1101110 1101111 1110100 1101000 1101001 1101110 1100111
Hex		6E6F7468696E67
Pig Latin		othingnay

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