Definition of Naught

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Definition of Naught
	Naught Nothing. The arithmetical character 0; a cipher. See Cipher. In no degree; not at all. Of no value or account; worthless; bad; useless. Hence, vile; base; naughty. Related Definitions: Account, All, Arithmetical, At, Bad, Base, Character, Cipher, Degree, Hence, In, Naughty, No, Not, Nothing, Of, Or, See, The, Useless, Value, Vile, Worthless

Naught Quotations

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
Lord Byron

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught.
William Butler Yeats

If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.
Robert Browning

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
Emma Goldman

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
George Santayana

Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
Petrarch

Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land.
Moshe Dayan

Naught Translations

naught in Dutch is nul, nihil
naught in French is zero
naught in German is nichts, Null
naught in Norwegian is null
naught in Swedish is noll, nolla

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