Nothing (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
- The new employee's contribution to the project was nothing, and we ended up doing all the work ourselves.
- The tiny island in the middle of the ocean looked like nothing I had ever seen before.
- After the fire, our entire collection was reduced to nothing, and we had to start over from scratch.
- The team's efforts were for nothing, and they lost the championship game in the final seconds.
- The new policy change was nothing but a minor tweak, and it didn't affect our daily operations at all.