nothing
/ˈnʌθɪŋ/ pronoun, noun, adverb, adjective, interjection
Forms nothings nuffin nuffin' nuffink nuttin nuttin' nuthin nuthin' nuthing nothin' nothink
- pronoun Not any thing; no thing. “Don't just say nothing. Tell me what's going on.”
- pronoun An absence of anything, including empty space, brightness, darkness, matter, or a vacuum.
- noun Something trifling, or of no consequence or importance. “- What happened to your face? - It's nothing.”
- noun A trivial remark especially in the term sweet nothings.
- noun A nobody (insignificant person).
- adverb (archaic) Not at all; in no way. “Nothing too much out of the ordinary.”
- adjective Completely unimportant. “Dallas scored on what had seemed until then like a nothing play.”
- adjective Lacking effort or commitment. “The cricketer played a nothing shot.”
- interjection Never mind; it's not important; forget what I said.
Synonyms
not a thing naught jack nada zip zippo zilch squat nix bugger all jack shit sod all fuck all dick nowt nothing of any consequence nothing consequential nothing important nothing significant something inconsequential nil null aught cipher cypher goose egg zero
Antonyms
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”).
Webster’s 1913
- noun Not anything; no thing (in the widest sense of the word thing); --opposed to Ant: anything and Ant: something.
- noun Nonexistence; nonentity; absence of being; nihility; nothingness.
- adverb In no degree; not at all; in no wise.
Etymology [From no, a. + thing.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “nothing”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details