Aught (Noun)
Meaning
A quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it".
Classification
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.
Examples
- After a long search, our efforts were all for naught.
- The company's stocks were reduced to naught after the scandal broke out.
- Trying to get him to change his mind was all for naught, he was stubborn.
- The big investment turned out to be naught but a costly mistake.
- The beautiful garden was reduced to naught but a barren wasteland after the flood.