nought

nought
    n 1: a mathematical element that when added to another number
         yields the same number [syn: {zero}, {0}, {nought},
         {cipher}, {cypher}]
    

Nought \Nought\, n. & adv.
   See {Naught}. --Chaucer.
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Naught \Naught\ (n[add]t), n. [OE. naught, nought, naht, nawiht,
   AS. n[=a]wiht, n[=a]uht, n[=a]ht; ne not + [=a] ever + wiht
   thing, whit; hence, not ever a whit. See {No}, adv. {Whit},
   and cf. {Aught}, {Not}.]
   1. Nothing. [Written also {nought}.]
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            Doth Job fear God for naught?         --Job i. 9.
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   2. The arithmetical character 0; a cipher. See {Cipher}.
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   {To set at naught}, to treat as of no account; to disregard;
      to despise; to defy; to treat with ignominy. "Ye have set
      at naught all my counsel." --Prov. i. 25.
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35 Moby Thesaurus words for "nought":
      a little thing, aught, cipher, goose egg, hardly anything,
      inessential, insignificancy, marginal matter,
      matter of indifference, mere nothing, minor matter, nada, naught,
      nichts, nihil, nihility, nil, nix, no great matter, no such thing,
      nothing, nothing at all, nothing in particular, nothing on earth,
      nothing to signify, nothing whatever, nullity, paltry affair,
      peu de chose, rien du tout, scarcely anything, technicality,
      thing of naught, zero, zilch